One of the biggest hurdles in developing humanoid robots is the sheer amount of training data required. Teaching machines to act like humans demands massive video datasets. Collecting that data is ...

In the latest episode of What the Future, we run down the best highlights and fails from the first World Humanoid Robot Games held last week in China. Jesse Orrall (he/him/his) is a Senior Video ...

On August 16, 2025, in Beijing, China, @Kōngjiānànwùzhí shared a video from a humanoid robot sports competition. In the video, a robot participant runs across multiple platforms with different ...

Tesla's sales are down in the U.S., they're down in Europe, they aren't exactly taking off in India, the Cybertruck has been a flop and CEO Elon Musk is the most disliked man in America. At a normal ...

While Tesla will constantly promote ever more advanced versions of Optimus, the humanoid robot it's working on—at least versions lacking human help behind the scenes—there is another robot in ...

According to CCTV Finance, sales of humanoid robots in China are expected to surpass 10,000 units in 2025, marking a 125% year-over-year increase and signaling the industry’s entry into its first year ...

Elon Musk gave Marc Benioff a demo of Tesla’s humanoid robot Optimus—and it’s clearly a work in progress. The Salesforce co-founder and CEO uploaded a video of the robot to social media website X on ...

Hardware You can buy a Chinese made programmable humanoid-robot for under $6,000 USD, but it might be the same one that tried to fight civilians Hardware If you were ever worried about a machine ...

Tesla has shifted the training strategy for its Optimus robot, insiders told Business Insider. Rather than motion capture suits and teleoperation, the automaker will rely primarily on video recordings ...

Nvidia is aiming to give robotics engineers a boost in the form of a new “brain” for their robots. Launched on Monday, the chip giant said that with the new Jetson Thor modules, robots around the ...

Hot off of proudly announcing that he had replaced 4,000 people with AI at his company, Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff posted a video of Tesla's humanoid robot, Optimus, calling it a "productivity ...