Humanoid robots may be part of our future, but human psychology and the uncanny valley may stand between them and world ...

Abstract: We designed and implemented a novel compressible spherical robot capable of omnidirectional rolling and jumping locomotion. Instead of using spring for energy storage and additional jumping ...

Tokyo engineers unveil a dog-inspired robot that uses air-powered muscles to study how animals absorb impact while running ...

Hyundai's ModED autonomous droid is going into production and also potentially for your job, as its flexible platform means it can tackle multiple tasks.

A humanoid robot created by a Chinese robotics company has just set a world record by walking 100 km (about 62 miles), completely unassisted, without stopping. At the end of 2025, humanity has ...

Recent research on fine-tuning large language models (LLMs) through the aggregation of multiple preferences has attracted considerable attention. However, the existing literature predominantly focuses ...

Abstract: This study introduces a novel quadruped robot, the TerraAdapt, furnished with an innovative deformable wheel–foot integrated structure. This unique design grants the robot the flexibility to ...

A three-day walk would be hard enough for humans, but for robots, it might as well be a trek around the world. An AgiBot A2 unit, developed by Chinese firm Zhiyuan Robotics, recently completed a ...

The robot walked over 2.5 full marathons in China. One robot just walked its way into history. Chinese robotics company AgiBot has set a new world record for the longest distance walked by a humanoid ...

Shanghai — A Chinese robot has stepped into the Guinness World Records after completing a three-day, 66-mile trek, the longest reported distance ever walked by a humanoid machine. The AgiBot A2, which ...

A humanoid robot has strolled into the record books after completing the longest-ever walk by such a machine. Built by Chinese robotics firm AgiBot, the A2’s record-breaking trek covered 106.3 ...

Starting in the 1960s, he collaborated on the designs of classic toys like Mouse Trap, Toss Across and Mr. Machine. By Richard Sandomir In the early 1960s, the toy inventor Burt Meyer went to an ...