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Engineers say they have created a design for a robot capable of jumping 400 feet into the air — and it could one day be heading for space.

A combination of cultured cells and silicone could help robots appear more human in future thanks to realistic skin elasticity. And they can smile like us too.

Footage shows the record-breaking TOKUFASTbot solving a Rubik's Cube so fast that it appears to happen in a single move. But in reality, advanced AI is helping it rapidly turn the puzzle's colored panels in an imperceptibly fast sequence.

The Shadow Hand robotic appendage is primarily built for machine learning projects with a focus on dexterity — but its creators want you to know just how tough it is.

Groundbreaking low-cost ‘loco-manipulators’ transform a humble robot dog into a dexterous bot capable of walking and handling objects simultaneously.

Boston Dynamics replaces its flagship humanoid robot after 10 years with a completely new machine that looks like the Pixar lamp with a mechanical humanoid body.

Short, stumpy robots learned how to play soccer — and improved their skills dramatically thanks to a new AI training technique that combines several pre-existing methods.

Figure 01 learned how to make coffee by watching a human do it, and now it can speak to you like a person.

Scientists used AI neural networks to teach a robot dog new tricks, enabling it to climb wooden crates and hop between them.

By harnessing a huge amount of torque in its legs, the H1 robot can potentially reach 11 miles per hour at top speed.