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Your local Hyundai dealership could someday start selling humanoid and dog-like robots.”We have existing potential distribution for selling robots through our dealer partners,” José Muñoz, Hyundai’s CEO, said during the company’s investor day. He added that Hyundai Capital, which already finances cars, is exploring whether it could do the same…
At a sold-out conference in San Francisco for people who build robots, the robots were surprisingly hard to find.This week, 1,500 robotics investors, founders, and engineers packed a cavernous former Army warehouse at Fort Mason, overlooking San Francisco Bay and the Golden Gate Bridge. They came from across the country…
On a Thursday afternoon, about 70 people gathered around a nearly six-foot-tall humanoid robot outside an unassuming office building.Employees, executives, and board members of Agility Robotics, along with local officials, had come to christen the humanoid startup’s new engineering hub: a 60,000-square-foot facility where nearly 200 existing and new employees…
In the summer of 2024, Evan Budz stood at the edge of his grandparents’ pool in Canada, trying to solve a unique problem: How to make his autonomous sea turtle robot swim.”I remember some of my first tests. I would put my robot in the water, and it would sink…
In the race to bring autonomous robots into the home, Sunday Robotics says it has solved one of the field’s hardest problems: getting a robot to work in homes and handle objects it has never seen before.On Thursday, the Bay Area-based startup unveiled ACT-2, a new AI model that powers…
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has ignited an unprecedented uncrewed arms race, transforming what began as a brutal artillery war into a new mechanized nightmare of drones and robots that can hunt, strike, and kill.On a recent trip to the embattled country, Business Insider was granted inside access to the next…
Humanoid robots have become the mascot of Silicon Valley’s physical AI boom.They dance in viral videos, bang out tunes on the piano, and are headed to Wall Street as Agility Robotics plans to go public. They promise a new workforce that never sleeps, never ages, and can work in spaces…
