A little early holiday surprise from Boston Dynamics this week, as Santa suit-wearing electric Atlas performs a backflip. The feat occurs about 13 minutes into a new video, showcasing yet another trick in the humanoid robot’s arsenal.It’s worth noting that unlike with humans a robot performing a b
Giving robots a human-like exterior has been the standard for years — centuries even. But giving them actual, living skin that can be manipulated into horrifying, slimy expressions? Thats new.The new work, published in the journal Cell Reports Physical Science, is very much just an experiment. This
As the human birth rate declines, humanoid robots could take up the slack and fill jobs that are vacant. But do we really need them? ADVERTISEMENT Building a robot that’s both human-like and useful is a decades-old engineeri
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Swaths of northern India are gripped by a heatwave, hitting humans as well as wildife including monkeys. Here, monkeys sit on a roadside in India\’s capital New Delhi in 2023 – Copyright AFP Arun SANKARThere are several traits we share with other animals and a fascination with watching violence (at l
