The calls for change come at a bad time for Schumer. Shutdown aside, his approval rating stands at 39% among New Yorkers, the lowest in twenty years, according to a Siena College poll. Over 46% of those polled disapprove of Schumer’s handling of the Senate Democrats.

A pair of swiveling, human-like robotic arms, built for physical artificial intelligence research, mirror the motions of an operator in a VR headset twirling his hands like a magician.

Humanoid robot training is booming around the world. Tech companies are rushing to build the robots for a market projected to reach $38 billion within the next decade.

Amazon's robotics chief reveals plans to eliminate menial jobs through AI and automation, as the company reshapes warehouse operations with advanced robotics.

The first units are expected to ship to customers in the US in 2026. There is a $499 monthly subscription alternative to the $20,000 full purchase price, although it will be available at an unspecified later date. A broader international rollout is promised for 2027.

"I don't think it's coming for our jobs," Affirm CEO Max Levchin told Yahoo Finance Executive Editor Brian Sozzi at Yahoo Finance's Invest conference. "I'm a huge believer in this notion that AI and embodied AI is a collection of tools for us to lead better lives, to do more."

Lofland, a professor in and head of the department, foresees a clear division of labor between human scientists and automated systems like this one. While the robots can generate a nearly limitless number of samples and measurements, it will be up to humans to make sense of the science behind them, he said.

Karthikeya S Parunandi’s career began far from the laboratories where he now architects the core algorithms behind advanced robots and self‑driving cars. From a rural Indian village to premier robotics conferences,

Anthropic tested how its AI model Claude could help non-experts operate a robot dog during an internal trial called Project Fetch. The company split eight researchers with no robotics background into two groups on a single day.