The value of humanoid robots in industrial settings has long been questioned, particularly when simpler machines such as ...
Boston Dynamics, the 32-year-old company famed for its amusing or creepy (depending on your interpretation) advanced robots including Atlas (humanoid) and Spot (a dog-like quadruped) featured in viral ...
A dance crew of four-legged robots from Boston Dynamics appeared on “America’s Got Talent” to perform a synchronized routine to Queen’s “Don’t Stop Me Now.” Their performance was impressive enough to ...
"Spot", a quadruped robot developped by Boston Dynamics, is displayed on June 9, 2022 during a presentation to the media at the Archaeological Park of Pompeii, near Naples, southern Italy. Spot is one ...
Marc Raibert has spent his entire career thinking up ways to build robots that are more and more capable. Now the 75-year-old is running a private research lab in Kendall Square, working on some of ...
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The top 6 robotics stories of 2025

We’ll be going into 2026 with both optimism and skepticism, and we’ll keep doing what we always do: talking to the experts, ...
Boston Dynamics, a developer of mobile robotics, has expanded its collaboration with Nvidia to build the next generation of AI capabilities for humanoid robots using the Nvidia Jetson Thor computing ...
Boston Dynamics probably has the most show-offy robots on the planet right now, and the company's latest video shows that its robodog, Spot, is no exception. Spoiler alert: he nails a septuple back ...
It’s been a month of extremes for Google’s artificial intelligent efforts, as the tech giant basks in the afterglow of winning a board game tournament against one of the world’s top players, while ...
Named "Spot," the quadruped robot from developers Boston Dynamics has been on the cutting edge of canine-like robots for several years now. Its newest trick is a triple backflip. While there isn't a ...