It’s a bizarre sight: With a short burst of light, a sponge-shaped robot scoots across a tiled surface. Flipped on its back, it repeatedly twitches as if doing sit-ups. By tinkering with the light’s ...

The more we interact with robots, the more human we perceive them to become – according to new research from the University of East Anglia. It may sound like a scene from Blade Runner, but ...

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 ...

Unicorn startup Skild AI has finally unveiled the robot “brain” it’s been quietly working on since 2023. Skild Brain is the startup’s new general-purpose AI model, designed to power a wide range of ...