The Atlas humanoid robot attempted a backflip. Here’s what happened

At the recent CES 2026 tech show in Las Vegas, Boston Dynamics showed off the latest version of its advanced Atlas humanoid ...
CNET

Getting to Know the Oli Humanoid Robot (by Dancing)

I got an exclusive hands-on demo of the latest humanoid robot from LimX Dynamics, Oli, and put it through its paces with an ...
CNET

I Got Up Close and Personal With Boston Dynamics' New Atlas Robot

Before Atlas takes its first steps into the world of work later this year, I found myself face-to-face with CES 2026's most ...
Microsoft

TwinVLA: Data-Efficient Bimanual Manipulation with Twin Single-Arm Vision-Language-Action Models

Vision-language-action models (VLAs) trained on large-scale robotic datasets have demonstrated strong performance on manipulation tasks, including bimanual tasks. However, because most public datasets ...
IEEE

Motion Planning Diffusion: Learning and Adapting Robot Motion Planning With Diffusion Models

Abstract: The performance of optimization-based robot motion planning algorithms is highly dependent on the initial solutions, commonly obtained by running a sampling-based planner to obtain a ...
IEEE

Modeling and Trajectory Tracking Control for a Rope-Driven Soft Robotic Arm Based on State-Attracted Functions

Abstract: In this letter, a biomimetic rope-driven soft robotic arm (RDSRA) is designed with its kinematic and dynamic modeling, incorporating the bending and adsorption structures of an elephant ...