A black humanoid, human-shaped, robot clutches a chain as it slowly descends into scorching molten metal. As flames begin to engulf the robot, a man in heat-resistant gear watching nearby gives it a ...

Figure is saying goodbye to its F.02 generation with a pretty heated marketing stunt – quite literally. Instead of simply ...

The San Jose, California-based company decided to decommission its old Figure 02 model robots in the most dramatic way possible. “As our F.03 fleet grows, maintaining the F.02 fleet no longer makes ...

The robotics startup Figure AI livestreamed humanoid robots placing thousands of packages onto a conveyor belt for more than a week—a spectacle that included a robot competing against a human intern ...

The worldwide AI race is fast developing beyond the computer screen and focusing on the physical world around us. Top labs are intent on making “thinking” robots, with brains that mimic our own, which ...

Earlier this year in Beijing, a humanoid robot crossed a half-marathon finish line in a blistering 50 minutes, 26 seconds. The feat immediately lit up global headlines for shattering the human world ...

Humanoid robots -- the fusion of AI and other technologies with a deliberately human-like form -- are poised to increase in popularity through 2026 and beyond. Agentic AI can perceive, reason, plan ...