Foundation models have made great advances in robotics, enabling the creation of vision-language-action (VLA) models that generalize to objects, scenes, and tasks beyond their training data. However, ...

CES kicked off robotics news for January 2026, and the momentum continued with companies hitting milestones and debuting new systems.

It’s becoming a little easier to build sophisticated robotics projects at home. Earlier this week, AI dev platform Hugging Face released an open AI model for robotics called SmolVLA. Trained on ...

Researchers from Standford University, University of California Berkeley, Google DeepMind, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and other labs have released OpenVLA, an open-source ...

In sci-fi tales, artificial intelligence often powers all sorts of clever, capable, and occasionally homicidal robots. A revealing limitation of today’s best AI is that, for now, it remains squarely ...

Carbon Robotics' neural net for agriculture could be more advanced than self-driving cars, says founder Paul Mikesell.

The world of robotics is poised for a quantum leap forward, thanks to the latest groundbreaking endeavor from Google DeepMind. The newly unveiled Gemini Robotics Foundation Model is set to redefine ...

Elon Musk is accelerating the development of Optimus humanoid robots, aiming for mass production to begin by late 2026. To ...

NVIDIA has unveiled the Isaac GR00T N1, the world’s first open, fully customizable foundation model for generalized humanoid reasoning and skills. This advanced system is designed to address the ...

Humans, like primates, are one of only a few species on Earth that can look at someone doing something and then learn from it — monkey see, monkey do. But just because that skill is somewhat unique in ...