Zion, a robot humanoid, was seen walking casually along Detroit’s 7 Mile Road, surprising pedestrians and the cars passing by ...

"It's literally going to feel like a sci-fi movie," Figure AI founder Brett Adcock says.

Researchers from the University of Cambridge and University College London have developed a new type of responsive “ synthetic skin .” The skin is made from a single hydrogel that is capable of ...

A robot’s epic spin fail during a kung fu demo in China had the crowd in stitches - watch how it crashes and steals the ...

Unlike traditional humanoid robots, Protoclone doesn’t just simulate mechanical gestures—it faithfully replicates human anatomy with over 1,000 artificial muscles, tendons, ultra-realistic ...

Humanoid robots have long been a staple of science fiction, but there is now real progress being made. A range of new models made by or backed by the likes of Boston Dynamics, Tesla and OpenAI are ...

Traditional robot bodies "are still monolithic, unadaptive, and unrecyclable," said paper author and mechanical engineer Hod ...

Optimus, as its robot is called, is less cute than its counterparts, to be sure, but probably a more perfect encapsulation of the sci-fi pipe dream. It’s a humanoid robot that stands on two legs ...

Long a staple of science fiction, humanoid robots are no longer just figments of imagination—the future came sharply into focus at the 2025 Consumer Electronics Show (CES) as robots of all kinds ...

It looked like a scene cut straight from a sci-fi movie — a humanoid robot starts flailing wildly as two nearby technicians take cover. But this was not fiction. A human-sized robot called a ...

He’s the Swiss Army Knife of sci-fi movie robots, with a gadget for every obstacle you can think of. While we felt bad separating R2-D2 from his BFF C-3PO, we had to give everyone’s favorite ...