Canyon Owen

    The Chinese University of Hong Kong introduced a soft robot in 2022 that uses magnetic slime to grab swallowed objects without surgery. An external magnet controls the device, making the slime stretch, squish, or form…

    CUHK magnetic slime robot

    CUHK magnetic slime robot

    Terrymiller

    Scientists have unveiled two humanoid robots that can greet and hug each other. A new framework called Rhythm helps them move and balance together naturally. They also danced and walked side by side while maintaining…

    Rhythm humanoid robots hug and dance

    Rhythm humanoid robots hug and dance

    Canyon Owen

    Agility Robotics has unveiled Digit 5, its fifth-generation humanoid robot built for industrial work. The design ditched the previous leg styling entirely. This model handles payloads up to 23 kilograms and reaches…

    Digit 5 Agility Robotics

    Digit 5 Agility Robotics

    Terrymiller

    Booster Robotics, the Chinese firm behind the T2 humanoid robots, just put them through their paces in a security patrol demo. You can see several units moving in formation, switching between walking and jogging while…

    Booster Robotics T2 humanoid robots

    Booster Robotics T2 humanoid robots

    Katrina Karan

    The recurring loop that greets you the moment your eyes open, persists through every hour of daylight, and waits for you again when the sun rises tomorrow isn't just a passing idea. That specific pattern signals to your…

    Microscopic neurons glowing blue

    Microscopic neurons glowing blue

    Katrina Karan

    Becoming the person you want only takes roughly thousands of neuronal signals. Science points to a different timeline for making changes stick though, with research showing it typically takes around two months before a…

    neuronal signals and habit formation

    neuronal signals and habit formation

    Terrymiller

    KAIST deployed a quadrupedal robot leveraging Action Pretrained Transformer-based Reinforcement Learning for versatile movement. The Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology built the machine to sense terrain…

    KAIST quadrupedal robot APT-RL

    KAIST quadrupedal robot APT-RL

    Canyon Owen

    Walking, hopping, swimming, none of it requires a brain, a computer, or sensors for this robot from AMOLF in Amsterdam. The legs are just flexible tubes that wiggle with constant airflow, like the inflatable dancers…

    AMOLF robot walks without computer or sensors

    AMOLF robot walks without computer or sensors

    Terrymiller

    That modular Tron 2 bot from LimX Dynamics just pulled off a scaled-down construction demo with Zinova, showing it can switch between a stationary dual-arm rig, a wheeled base, or a bipedal walker. The test had it moving…

    Tron 2 modular robot construction demo

    Tron 2 modular robot construction demo