The world’s first full-size purely-electric running robot, Tiangong from China, has gone open source. The move aims to boost secondary development and speed up the robots' integration into daily life.

A soft electroactive gel enables untethered robots to deform, grip, and move using only external electric fields, eliminating the need for internal wiring or circuitry. (Nanowerk Spotlight) The ...

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The adult-sized humanoid robot doesn’t take any blows, nor does it land any kicks or punches itself, but its movement is smooth and realistic, and demonstrates the bot’s ability to perform dynamic ...

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