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Tesla is spending $20 billion on capital expenditures this year, more than double what it spent a year ago. A pivot away from its core business could result in the company becoming unprofitable again.

Back-flipping, nunchuck-weilding humanoid robots delighted and amazed viewers at China’s annual televised new-year extravaganza with their kung-fu choreography. But they – and their rivals who took to ...

The 4-foot-tall humanoid robot that’s in front of me seems, quite honestly, a bit drunk. It leaps from one leg to the other, waving its arms. After 30 seconds or so it abruptly stops, then strides ...

The future for Elon Musk's electric-vehicle maker is based on the promise of self-driving cars, and eventually humanoid robots Tesla has had a rough year for its core electric vehicle business. That's ...

As humanoid robots emerge as a key technology riding the wave of AI, the US and China are rapidly forming two competing camps. Industry insiders analyzing their strengths say the US holds an edge ...

Anthropic believes AI models will increasingly reach into the physical world. To understand where things are headed, it asked Claude to program a quadruped. In a new study, Anthropic researchers found ...

Elon Musk has spent recent weeks outlining a vision for an economic future with Optimus that will "eliminate" poverty. Jobs will no longer exist, Musk said, and in a "benign" scenario, all humans will ...

At today’s Tesla shareholder meeting, Tesla CEO Elon Musk got right to the point in making his trademark ridiculous pronouncements, suggesting that criminals should be let out of prison and followed ...

Unitree's latest robot demos show it's the one to beat (literally) Unitree's latest robot demos show it's the one to beat (literally) ...

Meet Sparrow, Cardinal and Proteus. They’re the robots that, step by step, are replacing human workers in the company’s warehouses. By Karen Weise Karen Weise reported from Shreveport, La., and has ...