With a recent rollout in some L.A. grocery stores, the inventory bot, built by Burlingame-based company Simbe Robotics, joins the other free-range forms of physical AI that are already a part of everyday life in L.A. such as food-delivery bots and Waymos.

There's almost an infinite demand for robots right now, including humanoids, says Matter Venture Partners Haomiao Huang. But they may not look like humans.

This humanoid learned cornhole from a single video. And its coach was an AI. Meet Gemini 4 Argon, Google’s new frontier model, released worldwide on October 13. Google DeepMind researchers

By Laurie Chen SHENZHEN, Oct 15 (Reuters) - At the offices of Chinese startup DexForce, a screen shows a virtual robot placing objects on a table. It repeats the task as the angle of its arms, the colour of the table and the objects themselves change.

The Philippines plans its first physical AI data factory to train robots, expanding its role in robotics, AI development, and advanced manufacturing.

Doug Field will take his EV experience at Ford and Tesla to help Rivian build semi-humanoid manufacturing robots.