Chinese robotics firm Unitree has launched the R1, its most affordable humanoid robot, at a shockingly low asking price of US$5,900. It's hard to fathom that you can now get a walking, command-obeying machine that costs less than one of Leica's Q3 enthusiast-grade cameras.| New Atlas
As the race to bring humanoid robots into the workplace and the home heats up, manufacturers are often keen to show off newly learned skills and accomplishments. But none so far rock as hard as keytar wizard Adam from PNDbotics. Continue Reading Category:AI & Humanoids, Technology Tags:Robotics, Humanoid| AI & Humanoids
Until now, the robot workforce has had to either be plugged in all of the time, or spend some time cabled to the mains to top up its battery pack. UBTech has launched the Walker S2 humanoid, with dual batteries and the ability to hotswap on its own. Continue Reading Category:AI & Humanoids, Technology Tags:Battery Technology, UBTECH, Robots, Efficiency| AI & Humanoids
There's big news out of Silicon Valley, as OpenAI unveils its ChatGPT Agent – an AI that can autonomously complete complex, multi-step tasks using its own virtual computer to browse the web, run code, use other terminals, manage files and even interact with your personal applications and files (if…| New Atlas
The first robot I remember is Rosie from The Jetsons, soon followed by the urbane C-3PO and his faithful sidekick R2-D2 in The Empire Strikes Back. But my first disembodied AI was Joshua, the computer in WarGames who tried to start a nuclear war – until it learned about mutually assured destruction and chose to play chess instead. Continue Reading Category:AI & Humanoids, Technology Tags:LLM (Large Language Model), Robots, Soft Robotics, Artificial Intelligence, Intelligence, Human Enhancem...| AI & Humanoids
For the last few years, Italian engineers have been working on a humanoid robot for emergency response applications. The iRonCub3 has jets on its back and fire-breathers on its arms, and has now achieved stable take-off and hover for the first time. Continue Reading Category:AI & Humanoids, Technology Tags:Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Humanoid, Robots, Jet+Pack, Jets, Prototype, 2025 Updates| AI & Humanoids
AI tools like ChatGPT have changed our personal and professional worlds, with around 52% of American adults regularly using a large language model (LLM). Now, a new study details the immense environmental costs of our prompts, and it might make you think twice about what chatbot you use and how you…| New Atlas
How are you using new AI technology? Maybe you're only deploying things like ChatGPT to summarize long texts or draft up mindless emails. But what are you losing by taking these shortcuts? And is this tech taking away our ability to think?| New Atlas
An alarming video currently doing the rounds on social media appears to depict one of humanity's worst nightmares seemingly coming true: a killer robot going rogue. The short clip features a humanoid robot malfunctioning, flailing its appendages wildly, and getting almost too close for comfort to…| New Atlas
Ultra-deep tech startup Nirvanic put on a fairly humble-looking robotics demo at Jeff Bezos's private MARS 2025 conference – and while the team is adamant that this implies no endorsement from Bezos or Amazon, it may go down as a landmark moment both in AI robotics, and in our understanding of…| New Atlas
A pair of studies conducted by OpenAI and MIT Media Lab found a small percentage of test subjects who used ChatGPT extensively reported increased loneliness and emotional dependence, as well as reduced social interaction. Continue Reading Category:AI & Humanoids, Technology Tags:GPT, Open AI, mental health, MIT| AI & Humanoids
Swedish sci-fi adventure flick Watch the Skies is using a technique called 'visual dubbing' to alter the cast's lip movements and map them to dubbed English dialogue for international audiences – without reshooting a single scene. Continue Reading Category:AI & Humanoids, Technology Tags:Artificial Intelligence, Movies, Filmmaking| AI & Humanoids
While we're not short of divisive topics in 2025, there are valid reasons as to why we're turning to chatbots for emotional support – and why people are also very much against it. So how willing are you to embrace this new form of therapy?| New Atlas
Chinese humanoids are starting to move with extraordinary grace and agility, but Boston Dynamics is the OG in this field, and fresh video of its swivel-jointed Atlas robot running, cartwheeling and breakdancing shows it's still at the bleeding edge.| New Atlas
Chinese robotics company Zhongqing Robotics (aka EngineAI) just front-flipped into the humanoid robotics scene. The firm has posted a video of what is claimed to be the world's first humanoid robot front flip. Continue Reading Category:AI & Humanoids, Technology Tags:Agility Robotics, Boston Dynamics, Robotics, Figure, Humanoid| AI & Humanoids
Technology can physically change our brains as it becomes an integral part of daily life – but every time we outsource a function, we risk letting our ability atrophy away. What happens when that ability is critical thinking itself? Continue Reading Category:AI & Humanoids, Technology Tags:Microsoft, LLM (Large Language Model), Artificial Intelligence, Brain| AI & Humanoids
About every 10 minutes, it seems, a new article about a "revolutionary breakthrough" in AI hits my screen. A new approach, a new feature, billions of dollars this, AI agents that. It has been non-stop for the last year and grows exponentially every day. Today was no different.| New Atlas
The US AI giants got a wake-up call this week, when fledgling Chinese firm DeepSeek wiped a record-breaking trillion dollars off the value of heavyweights like Nvidia and OpenAI. The technology's gatekeepers are rattled – and they have good reason to be, as DeepSeek's model R1 shows how the costly…| New Atlas
The AI behavior models controlling how robots interact with the physical world haven't been advancing at the crazy pace that GPT-style language models have – but new multiverse 'world simulators' from Nvidia and Google could change that rapidly.| New Atlas
As science wrestles with the thorny job of proving, defining and understanding human consciousness, one pioneering startup aims to apply cutting-edge theories of consciousness to AI models – and create the first sentient AI. This is wild stuff. Continue Reading Category:AI & Humanoids, Technology Tags:Consciousness, Artificial Intelligence, Futuristic, LLM (Large Language Model), Robotics| New Atlas - New Technology & Science News
If you want to understand the cataclysmic impact generative AI is about to have on the film industry, this one short video should make it very clear. Only one shot is 'real' - and that includes the 'behind-the-scenes (BTS) footage.' Continue Reading Category:AI & Humanoids, Technology Tags:Creative AI, AI Art and Music, Google DeepMind, Artificial Intelligence| New Atlas - New Technology & Science News
Two new videos from Chinese companies make it clear: it'll soon be no use trying to run from robots. Rapid upgrades in speed and agility mean robot dogs can now sprint at near-Olympic pace, and humanoids are running smoothly over tough terrain. Continue Reading Category:AI & Humanoids, Technology Tags:Robots, Robotic, Speed, Humanoid, Quadruped, World's Fastest| New Atlas - New Technology & Science News
Chinese startup Pudu Robotics wants you to put its latest robot to work. The company's new humanoid D9 stands 5.57 ft (1.7 m) tall, can walk upright and carry loads up to 44 lb (20 kg) – and it's "born to serve." Continue Reading Category:AI & Humanoids, Technology Tags:Delivery robots, Robots, Humanoid| AI & Humanoids
While there are already AI systems that generate sound effects to match silent images of city streets (and other places), an experimental new technology does just the opposite. It generates images that match audio recordings of streets, with uncanny accuracy.| New Atlas
In the long list of tasks we'd like humanoid robots to perform for us, shooting hoops is probably close to the bottom – if it makes the list at all. But the CUE bot from Toyota recently set its second Guinness World Record, for the farthest basketball shot by a humanoid robot. Continue Reading Category:AI & Humanoids, Technology Tags:Toyota, basketball, Robots, Humanoid, Artificial Intelligence, Guinness| New Atlas - New Technology & Science News
Every facet of AI feels like it's advanced by a decade in the last year, and in the whirlwind of new releases and capabilities, you may have missed something important: interactive video chatbots that can see, hear and converse with you in real time. Continue Reading Category:AI & Humanoids, Technology Tags:Video, Artificial Intelligence, LLM (Large Language Model), Avatar| AI & Humanoids
Human intelligence and our collective wisdom are already becoming limiting factors in the rise of AI. Indeed, the only smart move at this point seems to be letting AIs design their own future hardware, right down to the microchip level.| New Atlas
"Atlas uses a machine learning (ML) vision model to detect and localize the environment ... There are no prescribed or teleoperated movements; all motions are generated autonomously online. The robot is able to detect and react to changes in the environment (e.g., moving fixtures) and action failures (e.g., failure to insert the cover, tripping, environment collisions) using a combination of vision, force, and proprioceptive sensors." Continue Reading Category:AI & Humanoids, Technology Tags:...| AI & Humanoids
In a conversation with XPRIZE Founder Peter Diamandis, Musk laid out what he sees coming from the rising force of AI, while laying out a timeframe for SpaceX's first unmanned and manned Mars missions, and lots more. Continue Reading Category:AI & Humanoids, Technology Tags:Elon Musk, Tesla, X (formerly Twitter), LLM (Large Language Model), Artificial Intelligence| AI & Humanoids
China's Kepler took its Forerunner humanoid robot to CES 2024 back in January, taking aim at Tesla's Optimus in the process. The company has since been in talks with target customers and has now announced a follow-up that's "tailored for commercial applications." Continue Reading Category:AI & Humanoids, Technology Tags:Robots, Artificial Intelligence, biped| AI & Humanoids
It was April of 2018, and a day like any other until the first text arrived asking "Have you seen this yet?!" with a link to YouTube. Seconds later, former President Barack Obama was on screen delivering a speech in which he proclaimed President Donald Trump "is a total and complete [expletive]."| New Atlas
Generative AI systems need to be fed huge amounts of data, with copyrighted materials often on the menu. Musicians may now have a way to fight back with HarmonyCloak, a system that embeds data into songs that can’t be picked up by human ears but will scramble AI trying to reproduce it.| New Atlas
