Researchers have developed a chemical structure for an artificial muscle that can lift up to 4,000 times its weight, and they ...

Chinese EV maker XPeng has unveiled its next-generation IRON humanoid robot at the 2025 XPeng Tech Day, calling it “the most ...

Striving to stand out in the competitive humanoid robotics market, Polish-frim Clone Robotics has unveiled its first full-scale humanoid robot, Clone Alpha. The humanoid integrates synthetic organs ...

This dual cross-linking design lets the muscle switch stiffness on demand. In lab tests, its stiffness jumps from about 213 ...

A new humanoid robot has stunned audiences with its eerie realism to the point where many refused to believe it was actually a machine.

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

While we may be impressed by their artificial intelligence, humanoids often have an awkward, clunky gait. Now, experts have ...

As always with these kind of anthropomorphic robots: Why? The human form is the result of evolution, a messy, unguided, inefficient process. There's no reason to replicate such a configuration. Even ...

Scientists at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have created organic robots that are powered by 3D-printed muscle cells and controlled with electrical pulses. These “bio-robots” are the ...

As I’m typing these words, I don’t think about the synchronized muscle contractions that allow my fingers to dance across the keyboard. Or the back muscles that unconsciously tighten to hold myself ...

It's not clear that anyone was asking for a company to build a muscular, sinewy robot or to see a video of it dangling, helpless from a hook, but life is full of ...