So, to create a material both strong and flexible, the team created one that could shift between liquid and solid states. To achieve this feat, the researchers made their robot out of a metal ...

They're made from magnetic neodymium ... the shapeshifting Terminator that inspired the robot. The tiny Lego figure in the clip does melt from a solid into a liquid to escape its cage, but it ...

The new robots are made of what the team calls magnetoactive phase transitional matter (MPTM) – in English, that means stuff that can switch between liquid and solid forms through exposure to ...

Scientists say the Lego-shaped robot can “melt” from solid to liquid and reform itself ... remotely with a magnetic field. It’s made from a mixture of magnetic materials including neodymium ...

We broke the news of Figure’s existence back in September. In March, the company made things official, coming out of stealth with some robot renders in hand. Vancouver-based Sanctuary has been ...

Gif: Figure / YouTube As if Elon Musk needed yet another reason to hate OpenAI. Figure, a startup that partnered with OpenAI to develop a humanoid robot, released a new video on Wednesday.

but also to take advantage of the strength of a solid object when needed. The ability to move between both states using magnetic fields allowed the robots made of shape-shifting liquid metal to ...

Most robots are preprogrammed to perform ... humans do it — while correcting mistakes it made in real time. In the promotional footage, Figure.ai's flagship model, dubbed "Figure 01", picks ...

In May of this year, TechCrunch ran a piece titled “Figure’s humanoid robot takes its first steps.” The story was a firsthand account of my visit to the startup’s South Bay offices.