The stiffened artificial muscle can support up to 5 kilograms (11 pounds) — roughly “4,000 times its own weight.” The muscle ...

This film by Jon Kasbe and Crystal Moselle skirts gimmicks to examine a creator’s drive to build a humanoid device powered by artificial intelligence. By Alissa Wilkinson When you purchase a ticket ...

The documentary "My Robot Sophia" tells the story of David Hanson's quest to create a human-like robot who can feel emotions and learn to care. Sophia is powered by artificial intelligence, and the ...

Forget valleys; we’re now entering veritable Grand Canyons of uncanniness. Behold the robot known as “Protoclone,” built by Clone Robotics. It’s supposedly the world’s first bipedal, musculoskeletal ...

Jack has a degree in Medical Genetics from the University of Leicester.View full profile Jack has a degree in Medical Genetics from the University of Leicester. A Polish robotics engineer has ...

As if the line between human and machine wasn't already blurry enough, researchers in Tokyo have developed a new method for using living rat muscle tissue in robotics. The “biohybrid” design, ...

Czech playwright Karel Capek coined the word “robot” in his seminal 1920 work, “Rossum’s Universal Robots.” In this dark piece of sci-fi, the term described flesh-and-blood laborers made from organic ...