Peter Brown, author and illustrator of the award-winning The Wild Robot books, shares his storytelling techniques and what it was like seeing Rozzum 7134 come to life on the big screen.

In November 2024, stories about the future of robotics, big robot milestones, and new product unveilings grabbed our readers’ attention.

Schaeffler, a global motion technology leader, said it sees ‘the potential to deploy a significant number of humanoids in our global network of 100 plants by 2030.’

The study group needs to determine what aspects of human-robot interaction might impact the development of standards for humanoids.

Europe is more fragmented a market than the U.S. or China, but it hosts numerous innovators, from industrial automation to humanoids.

Swiss-Mile is productizing a robot that puts wheels onto a four legged robot, and XPENG released a video of of its humanoid at work.

Agility Robotics gives insight into how it trains its humanoid robot Digit in simulation using NVIDIA’s robotics tools.

NVIDIA said its Project GR00T workflows and model tools, plus its Hugging Face partnership, will boost robot dexterity and mobility.

Discussion about the latest Boston Dynamics humanoid video and an interview with Gili Ovadia from BionicHive warehouse robotics.

In October 2024, large funding rounds, new AI product developments, and, of course, humanoids were drew readers’ attention.

In the latest video from Boston Dynamics, the Atlas humanoid demonstrates its mobility to work autonomously.

China’s National Local Joint Humanoid Robot Innovation Center launches initiative to promote data sharing among domestic humanoid companies.

We recap the the 2024 FIRA event and sit down with Russ Tedrake from Toyota Research Institute and Scott Kuindersma from Boston Dynamics.

igus GmbH offers a finger gripper for its ReBeL collaborative robot arm to help developers

1X founder and CEO Berndt Børnich joins us this week to discuss the go to market plans for the NEO Beta humanoid robot.

CIIF 2024 showed the latest in China’s robotics industry, from cobots and industrial automation to humanoids.

September 2024 brought unique business deals, exciting events, and even the return of a robotics industry veteran. 

OpenAI has created a number of large language models (LLM) and image generation models that are revolutionizing robotics.

Fourier launches the second generation of its humanoid robot, the GR-2, and the accompanying development platform.

NVIDIA, which provides tools to accelerate design and testing for humanoid robots, explains what we should expect from developers and AI.

In this week’s podcast, we connect with the founder of Kinisi Robotics to learn about the future for wheeled humanoids.

GXO is working with robotics providers including Reflex Robotics to test mobile manipulator capabilities in tasks such as omnichannel fulfillment.