We have all heard about the robot that had to be cut to confirm that there was no human inside. When XPENG unveiled its hyper-realistic humanoid robot IRON at its AI Day in Guangzhou, it stirred all ...

When XPeng unveiled its latest humanoid robot earlier this year, the spectacle was designed to provoke disbelief. The robot’s movements appeared so lifelike that founder He Xiaopeng had its leg cut ...

Breaking away from conventional robots that perform only predefined functions once fabricated, researchers have developed a ...

It’s a bizarre sight: With a short burst of light, a sponge-shaped robot scoots across a tiled surface. Flipped on its back, it repeatedly twitches as if doing sit-ups. By tinkering with the light’s ...

A new artificial muscle can change shape, repair damage, and be reused, bringing a major shift in how robots are built and ...

Rather than replicating it directly, it’s more appropriate to use it as a source of ideas.” Humanoids face the same question.

Engineers have long tried to build artificial muscles that work like the ones in the human body—strong, flexible, fast, and ...

A premapped course, a crew of handlers and a world-beating time: here’s what this Beijing half marathon reveals about how far ...