At the 2025 AI Day in Guangzhou, Chinese firm Xpeng revealed the second-generation IRON humanoid robot. Engineers spent a ...

The robotics industry has entered a phase that would’ve seemed like science fiction just a decade ago. Robots are no longer ...

Here’s the catch that’s dividing opinions: NEO has a brain that isn’t all its own. This robot relies on both AI and human control. When NEO encounters an unfamiliar situation, 1X has human operators ...

Seeing robots made with soft, flexible parts in action appears to lower people's anxiety about working with them or even being replaced by them. A study found that watching videos of a soft robot ...

Enter NEO, a humanoid robot created by 1X, an artificial intelligence and robotics company based in Palo Alto, California.

A research team led by Dr. Lin Cao from the University of Sheffield's School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering has ...

Engineers at MIT have devised an ingenious new way to produce artificial muscles for soft robots that can flex in more than one direction, similar to the complex muscles in the human body. The team ...

Robots that can sense touch and perceive temperature differences? An unexpected material might just make this a reality. Researchers are developing soft and intelligent sensor materials based on ...

Inspired by invertebrate organisms like jellyfish and earthworm, the research of soft robotics as alternatives to traditional rigid robots has made tremendous progress in recent years. Scientists are ...

TL;DR: The Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas featured Aria, a human-sized AI robot by Realbotix, designed for companionship and intimacy. Initially linked to sex dolls, Aria is now rebranded as ...

In one campus laboratory, electrical engineering doctoral student Karthik Subramanian adds facial recognition and heart rate bio-signals into the mind of a 9-foot-tall robot. In another workshop, ...

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