Robots that mimic humans are set to create a $5 trillion market. But it will take years and a lot of improvements to get there.

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang predicts a future with personal robots like R2-D2 and C-3PO from Star Wars. Huang referenced the droid duo during an appearance at T-Mobile's Capital Markets Day. The Nvidia ...

A Year of Unprecedented Advancements. Wow, 2024 was a wild ride for robots, wasn’t it? It feels like just yesterday we were ...

TL;DR: FigureAI has developed an AI-powered walking controller for its Figure 02 humanoid robot, enhancing its movement to be more human-like with features such as heel strikes and synchronized arm ...

Dr Mark Maybury, Lockheed Martin. The first time Dr Mark T Maybury watched Star Wars, he didn’t leave the cinema dreaming of ...

Designed from artwork by Ralph McQuarrie in 1975, R2-D2 looks more like a small blue-and-white garbage can than a human being. In the films, R2-D2 is the type of droid built to interface with ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Star Wars is home to many iconic pairs, such as Han Solo and Princess Leia, Obi-Wan Kenobi and ...

Stories about robots and artificial intelligence tend to take one of two approaches. First, there are cautionary tales, following in the footsteps of Frankenstein, in which intelligent machines turn ...

Nvidia, AMD and Intel all had important chip and AI platform announcements on the first day of CES 2026, but all audiences ...