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WEST LAFAYETTE, IN — Purdue University researcher Sooyeon Jeong is working to make robots more helpful and personable. Jeong, an assistant professor of computer science, leads a lab that focuses on ...

James Bruton and his version of the At-At walker from Star Wars British YouTuber James Bruton wanted to build a giant walking robot from Star Wars – and ride around on it on his friend's tennis court.

British YouTuber James Bruton wanted to build a giant walking robot from Star Wars – and ride around on it on his friend's tennis court. "My goal is to have something people would click on," he says.

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Chinese tech firm Alibaba launched a new open-source model that gives robots a "brain," the South China Morning Post said Wednesday. RynnBrain, an embodied foundation model based on Alibaba’s Qwen3-VL ...

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