China is no longer just building robots it’s choreographing them. Humanoid robots at the 2025 Understanding China Conference ...
This is the year of the robot, starting with the movie Ex Machina and filtering down to the performing arts, which have seen a spate of humans dancing with robots in touching pas de deux. I ...
We humans have mastered fire, split the atom, and shot ourselves into space. We've built machines that can outthink us and tools that can cook us lunch or cut open our chests to perform life-saving ...
Teaching robots to dance with fluid and expressive motions was a new challenge for a company that spent years building robots that have functional abilities like walking, navigating in rough terrain, ...
Marc Raibert is one of the world’s most famous robot builders. Videos of the dog-like Spot robot he developed at Boston Dynamics, or the humanoid Atlas robot dancing to “Do You Love Me?”, have racked ...
Russian President Vladimir Putin was caught on camera looking stony-faced as he watched a robot dance at a Moscow AI exhibition Wednesday. Video of the display showed the humanoid robot trying to ...
Braving the dance floor in broad daylight — or even just when the overhead lights are on — frequently does not end well. Your clumsy moves, weird facial expressions, or catastrophic blunders will ...
WALTHAM, Mass. — The man who designed some of the world's most advanced dynamic robots was on a daunting mission: programming his creations to dance to the beat with a mix of fluid, explosive and ...