Three robotics experts said humanoid robots need to move beyond flashy demos to performing tasks that are actually useful in the real world at scale.

Elon Musk told the World Economic Forum on Thursday about his vision for a world where there are more robots than people—enough robots that you won't be able to think of anything more to ask them to do.

On Jan. 22, Louisiana's economic development agency and St. Bernard-based SSE Steel Fabrication announced an agreement with Houston-based tech startup Persona AI to launch a pilot program at SSE to develop humanoid robotics for industrial uses. Greater New Orleans Inc., southeast Louisiana's economic development nonprofit, also is participating.

The company is positioning this approach as a turning point for robotics, comparable to what large generative models have done for text and images.

The symmetrical design and flexible fingers mean that the robot can transport objects on either side of its body. For humans, that would look like holding a ball in your palm while simultaneously grasping a piece of fruit on the back of your hand.

Serve Robotics Inc. (NASDAQ:SERV) is one of the stocks on Jim Cramer’s radar. During the lightning round, a caller sought Cramer’s opinion of the company, and he replied: Okay, we’re not going to go into robotics other than to say that we want Tesla.

Using robotic fins, researchers at the University of California, Riverside have learned how stingrays are able to swim with impressive control. These insights could help underwater vehicles avoid disastrous ground collisions.