This DIY Bipedal Robot Used Pneumatic “Air-Muscles” Instead of Motors

In 1987, Richard Greenhill, a British photographer who was fascinated by (but had no actual training in) robotics, decided he wanted to build a life-size humanoid that could do useful things, like carrying luggage.…

• He was working at a startup called Intergalactic Robots, but he couldn…
• To help with his project, he organized a weekly get-together of a doze…
• Every Wednesday night, his wife, Sally, would make a big pot of spaghe…

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Video Friday: Watch This Running Robot Not Fall Down Stairs

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How JPL Keeps the 13-Year-Old Curiosity Rover Doing Science

Thirteen years ago last August, I was camped out in NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory press room in Pasadena, Calif.…

• , waiting to see whether the Curiosity rover would survive its descent…
• It did, and it was awesome.
• Since then, Curiosity (also known as Mars Science Laboratory) has trav…

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Beyond Dexterity: Why Contact May Define the Next Era of Robotics

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• Throughout the exhibition hall at the 2026 IEEE International Conferen…
• Two robotic hands were making a balloon dog.
• Slowly and deliberately, the robot twisted a long balloon into loops, …

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Defining Autonomy for Wellness Robots in Senior Care

An examination of how socially assistive wellness robots could support the seven dimensions of senior wellness, and how a framework can measure their autonomy.…

• What Attendees will LearnWhy the senior care crisis exceeds incrementa…
• Demographic pressure, workforce shortages, and a daily wellness-progra…
• What defines a wellness robot as a category.

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Video Friday: Robotic Motion Discovery Reveals Unusual Behaviors

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Award-Winning Researcher Trains Robots to Make Educated Guesses

Yen-Ling Kuo always wanted to understand how things worked.…

• When she was growing up in Taiwan, reading the story of Michael Farada…
• During that time, she was introduced to Logo, a computer program with …
• It was Kuo’s introduction to programming logic.

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Visual Language Models Train Robots to Read Human Emotions

This article is part of our exclusive IEEE Journal Watch series in partnership with IEEE Xplore.…

• As robots advance in terms of dexterity and other physical capabilitie…
• If that happens, how will robots’ emotional capabilities need to advan…
• In a recent study, researchers trained collaborative robots to read hu…

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The Secret to Marathon-Winning Humanoid Robots

On 19 April 2026, the Honor Lightning humanoid robot ran a half-marathon in 50 minutes and 26 seconds, beating the human world record by 7 minutes and the best robot time from 2025 by almost 2 hours.…

• How did Honor do it?
• Is there some magical technology or technique that unlocked this perfo…
• How did the company beat the significantly better-known Unitree (which…

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What Amazon’s Astro Taught Me About Giving Robots a Soul

In 2018, Amazon brought me in as the lead UX Sound Designer for Astro, its first consumer home robot.…

• Astro used cameras and other sensors to map and navigate your home and…
• While there was a well-defined feature set and form factor, initially …
• In fact, even before Astro had a name, there were two main questions—w…

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Video Friday: Do Robots Even Need Legs?

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Video Friday: Give Robots a Hand

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Video Friday: An Earthbound Mars Rover for the Moon

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Japan Pioneered Humanoid Robots—Can It Now Catch China?

“In the future, the relationship between humans and robots will deepen, and the distinction between them will probably disappear.…

• ” This prediction, from one of the attendees at the recent Humanoids S…
• Geminoid HI-6 is the sixth-generation of a robot originally designed i…
• The mechanical twin of Osaka University professor Hiroshi Ishiguro, Ge…

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Video Friday: Lift Happens

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The Download: Flock’s new rules, cloning’s future, and children’s cells

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology.…

• Flock is tightening its rules in response to a growing surveillance ba…
• The move comes amid a backlash over mass surveillance and reports of o…
• To combat that, the company will require them to enter a criminal case…

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Cloning could be used to save species—or make human “organ sacks”

This week I spoke to scientists who have found a way to turn male mouse embryos female.They’ve developed a CRISPR-based approach to essentially cut out the Y chromosome.…

• It allowed them to create female clones of male mice.
• That’s right: female animals that are genetically identical to males, …
• Takashi Ishiuchi, a reproductive biologist at the University of Yamana…

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Job titles of the future: Space travel agent

Roman Chiporukha has long turned wild travel dreams into reality.…

• Over two decades as co-owner of the luxury lifestyle firm Roman & Eric…
• NHUNG LÊ The experiences earned him “the ear,” he says, “of the ultra-…
• ” It also led to a life-changing phone call: In 2018, Axiom Space want…

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This scientist is helping build a missing map of childhood

In 2017, Deanne Taylor attended a presentation at the University of Pennsylvania, just a short walk from her office.…

• A researcher was there to unveil the Human Cell Atlas, an ambitious pr…
• Taylor was floored, and then concerned.
• As details emerged, she discovered that the project’s researchers had …

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Roundtables: Inside the “Censorship-Industrial Complex” Idea Shaping US Policy

Listen to the session or watch below The “censorship-industrial complex” is an idea that a network of government, tech, and research groups is collaborating to suppress conservative online speech.…

• This was fodder for the right-wing information sphere for years—then i…
• Watch a conversation exploring how it started, where it’s going, and w…
• Speakers: Amy Nordrum, Executive Editor, Operations, and Eileen Guo, S…

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Building a practical path to post-quantum cryptography

Quantum computing has alternated between breakthrough darling and overhyped promise in technology circles.…

• Its powerful new capabilities come with a threat to break current cryp…
• The mathematics behind today’s encrypted digital transactions may yiel…
• For executives concerned about disruption, cost, or complexity, a stru…

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The builder’s guide to GPT‑5.6

Learn how startups use GPT-5.6 to build faster, more cost-efficient AI agents with smarter model selection and new Responses API capabilities.

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Previewing Ultrafast mode: GPT-5.6 Sol at up to 14X the speed

Preview Ultrafast, a new OpenAI API service tier that runs GPT-5.6 Sol up to 14× faster. Powered by Cerebras, it delivers up to 750 output tokens per second.

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OpenAI appoints Dali Rajic as Chief Revenue Officer

OpenAI appoints Dali Rajic as Chief Revenue Officer to lead its global revenue organization and help businesses realize the full value of AI.

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