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This New Humanoid Home Robot Costs $20K, and You Still Have to Train It

It stands 5 feet, 6 inches tall, weighs about as much as a golden retriever and costs near the price of a brand-new budget ...

The first consumer humanoid robot is here, and it lets strangers see inside your home

Robotics company 1X Technologies (1XT), which secured $100 million in funding from OpenAI, EQT Ventures, and others in 2024, unveiled a bipedal humanoid robot, Neo Beta, last year.
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A humanoid robot is now on sale for under US $6,000. What can you do with it?

You might have noticed that humanoid robots are having a bit of a moment. From Tesla's Optimus to Figure AI's Figure 02, these machines are no longer just science fiction—they're walking, and in ...

This humanoid robot’s spine-chilling move is made for Halloween

When robotics firm Unitree made its G1 humanoid robot available for sale last year, it probably didn’t imagine someone ...
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This Robot Only Needs a Single AI Model to Master Humanlike Movements

Atlas, the humanoid robot famous for its parkour and dance routines, has recently begun demonstrating something altogether more subtle but also a lot more significant: It has learned to both walk ...
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Humanoid Hype Meets Reality: 1X's $20K NEO Home Robot Draws Skepticism, Memes

Initial hype for the 1X NEO cooled after demos showed the robot was still fully tele-operated, sparking skepticism online.
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Humanoid robots could lift 4,000 times their own weight thanks to breakthrough 'artificial muscle'

Researchers have developed a chemical structure for an artificial muscle that can lift up to 4,000 times its weight, and they ...
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US firm unveils wheeled humanoid robot that blends speed, safety and precision

Dex, the company’s first-ever mobile humanoid robot designed for industrial applications. Equipped with the NVIDIA Jetson ...