Genesis AI, a global full-stack robotics company, has unveiled GENE-26.5, a robotic brain designed to help general-purpose robots perform complex physical tasks with human-level manipulation. The company says the system pairs a robotics foundation model ...

Then, sealing its Olympian credentials, the robot blazes down a track at a top speed of 12.66 meters per second, Unitree claims. Even Usain Bolt isn’t that fast. During his record-setting 100-meter sprint in 2009 of 9.58 seconds, the Jamaican athlete reached a top speed of around 12.2 meters per second.

The AION robot walks and moves like a real human, showcasing some of the most advanced humanoid robotics today. With a price tag of $150K, it’s designed for research, entertainment, and high-end tech enthusiasts.

This transcript was prepared by a transcription service. This version may not be in its final form and may be updated. Ryan Knutson: Our colleague, Yoko Kubota, was in Beijing a few months ago and visited a strange place. Yoko Kubota: So it's actually only ...

The human hand is remarkably good at handling objects, from picking up a tiny needle to twisting a bottle cap. Engineers have spent years trying to reproduce these abilities in robots, often by building complicated mechanical hands with joints,

Earlier this year, I watched a video that caught me entirely by surprise: A clip from the CCTV Spring Festival in China, in which more than a dozen humanoid robots performed an intricate martial-arts routine. They backflipped. They high-kicked. They ...