Human–robot interaction (HRI) and gesture-based control systems represent a rapidly evolving research field that seeks to bridge the gap between human intuition and robotic precision. This area ...

Humanoid robot maker Unitree Robotics has teased what it calls the world’s first humanoid robot “app store”, a developer platform designed to bring embodied intelligence into everyday life by allowing ...

Japanese startup H2L has introduced a breakthrough device that could change how we interact with robots. The Capsule Interface allows users to control humanoid robots through their muscle movements, ...

The tech industry has become obsessed with the idea of humanoid robots, bipedal androids designed to complete tasks on behalf of their flesh-and-blood counterparts. But as many experts have argued, ...

Embarrassing mishap at Tesla: Instead of passing out bottles, a robot misses its target and knocks everything over. Then it raises its hands to its head and falls backwards. Italian cycling team shot ...

A new video surfacing from a Tesla demonstration in Miami this weekend shows the Optimus humanoid robot taking a nasty fall. But it’s not the fall itself that is raising eyebrows, it’s the specific ...

Google’s new hand gestures for the Pixel Watch are finally here, and they genuinely make using the watch feel more intuitive. You can now control parts of the watch by doing a Double pinch or a quick ...

After missing out on last month’s Feature Drop, Google is rolling out a sizable Pixel Watch 4 update this December that adds one-handed gestures. Joining Raise to Talk (which is getting a new ...

GXO Logistics will start using humanoid robots at warehouses "to help with a variety of repetitive tasks." The company will use Agility Robotics' bipedal (two-legged) "mobile manipulation robot" named ...

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