iRobot co-founder Colin Angle emerges from stealth with Familiar Machines & Magic, a venture ditching industrial humanoids for "lovable" quadruped companions powered by on-device social AI.
As affordable Chinese hardware like the Unitree G1 floods American labs, security experts and domestic competitors warn of a "Trojan Horse" scenario regarding data privacy and remote hijacking.
A string of executive departures and reports of board-level friction highlight the growing pains as Boston Dynamics attempts to scale the all-electric Atlas for Hyundai’s factory floors.
Meta Platforms Inc. has acquired a robotics AI startup to develop a foundational "operating system" for humanoid machines, signaling a major hardware push despite recent leadership shifts in its AI research divisions.
In the second half of an extensive facility tour, CEO Brett Adcock details Figure’s "Never Fall" protocol, wireless inductive charging, and the roadmap for embodied AGI.