Figure’s massive video training project
Robotics startup Figure, recently valued at an astonishing $39 billion, has launched an ambitious initiative called Project Go-Big — an effort to build the world’s largest video database of human behavior in everyday home environments. The goal is clear: to teach robots how to behave naturally and independently in real-world domestic settings. Through a partnership […]
Robo-bird masters natural takeoff and flight
Chinese engineers have finally achieved what has been dreamed of for decades — natural flight like that of birds. Their new invention, RoboFalcon 2.0, is a revolutionary robot with folding wings that flap like a bat, glide like a bird, and can take off without any human assistance. Weighing only 800 grams, RoboFalcon 2.0 is […]
Robots detect million-dollar art fakes
Artificial intelligence and robotics are now on the front line in the fight against a wave of counterfeit works by the famous Canadian artist Norval Morrisseau, whose forged paintings have flooded the market — with more than 6,000 copies estimated to be in circulation and losses reaching millions of dollars. The investigation is already being […]
Bubble-powered bots could replace needles
Forget rockets and rotors — the next big leap in robotics might come from… bubbles. A team of scientists from the United States and China has managed to turn cavitation — the violent collapse of bubbles in a liquid — into propulsion for micro-robots capable of penetrating skin without any needles. These microscopic “jumpers” use […]
Alibaba-backed X Square nabs $100M
Chinese startup X Square Robot from Shenzhen, backed by Alibaba Cloud, has raised a new $100 million in funding, reinforcing its ambition to bring robots into homes before Tesla and Figure. In less than two years, the company has already secured a total of $280 million in capital, confirming the massive market appetite for humanoid […]