After a year as COO of K-Scale Labs, Rui Xu reflects on the hard lessons behind the collapse of its low-cost humanoid robot ambitions.

First, though, the machines will have to learn how to pour water or carry soup, as a Chinese restaurant that replaced its wait staff with robots quickly learned. If we trusted this drone to get little ...

On September 25, 2025, Google DeepMind quietly released Gemini Robotics 1.5. To the casual observer, it may have seemed like just another software update, but for the robotics industry, it signaled a ...