Imagine “hiring” a robot instead of buying one. That’s the core idea behind Robot-as-a-Service (RaaS), a business model that ...

Spirit AI, an embodied AI startup, today announced that its latest VLA model, Spirit v1.5, has ranked first overall on the RoboChallenge benchmark. To drive industry transparency and collaborative ...

Abstract: Existing approaches often operate poorly in noisy or occluded conditions, rely on cloud-based inference subject to latency and privacy issues, and do not take emotional context into ...

Billions of dollars are flowing into humanoid robot startups, as investors bet that the industry will soon put humanlike machines in warehouses, factories and our living rooms. Many leaders of those ...

Abstract: This paper presents a novel way for Robot-Robot-Human interaction in a shared workspace for collaborative tasks and uses a multi-modal means of communication that includes hand gestures, ...

Instead of focusing on the existing economic and social problems China is facing, strengthening manufacturing and exports has become Beijing’s overriding priority. On September 30, 2025, Ford Motor ...

Robot lawn mowers may still seem futuristic, but advances in technology (especially satellite mapping) have made them more efficient and accessible than ever. They tend to take a little time and work ...

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Elissa Tucker is Principal Research Lead, Human Capital Management (HCM), at APQC. Drawing on more than 20 years of experience in human resources research, writing and advising, Elissa develops and ...