Chinese EV maker Xpeng continues to expand on its EVs and flying vehicle technologies, but it also unveiled the new generation of its IRON humanoid robots at its AI Day in Guangzhou, China. Xpeng ...

Can robots become self-sustaining by consuming other objects? This is what a recent study published in Science Advances hopes to address as a team of almost two dozen researchers investigated physical ...

Thanks to artificial intelligence, robots can already perform many tasks that would otherwise require humans. In this interview, Edoardo Milana, a junior professor of soft machines, explains how ...

Researchers from the Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (IIT) in Genoa (Italy) and Brown University in Providence (USA) have discovered that people sense the hand of a humanoid robot as part of their ...

What if a robot could show us how the brain keeps us balanced? UBC scientists built one—and their discovery could help shape new ways to reduce fall risk for millions of people. A towering "body-swap" ...

In Superhumanity: Part 1, we reported on the Enhanced Games, an athletic competition that will be staged next May in Las Vegas for a willing contingent of chemically assisted swimmers, sprinters, and ...

What if a robot could show us how the brain keeps us balanced? UBC scientists built one – and their discovery could help shape new ways to reduce fall risk for millions of people. A towering ...

Cathy Hutchinson hasn’t been able to drink anything without the help of her caregiver in the 15 years since she had a stroke. Now, thanks to new technology detailed today in Nature, she can take a sip ...

It’s hardly radical to say that women’s bodies are inherently smaller and weaker than men’s bodies—but research compiled in Starre Vartan’s illuminating new book The Stronger Sex: What Science Tells ...