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 ...

The company also released a video showing two humanoid robots putting away groceries. It’s worth watching. Figure, a Silicon Valley-based startup that builds humanoid robots, has announced Helix ...

In a nutshell: Researchers have developed minuscule robots that can "assemble" and behave like a collective, building new shapes and tools ... together to create new solid structures.

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 ...

Robotics startup Figure recently ... The current crop of humanoid robots isn’t there yet, but it’s exciting to see videos like this showing the advances being made in the sector.

Using actuators, it can take on different shapes and move around. Engineers at North Carolina State University (NC State University) have developed a shape-shifting robot that can take on over ...

Figure is one of them, and the company just unveiled a brand new AI model for humanoid robots that will let them do exactly what I want. Helix is the name of the Vision-Language-Action (VLA ...

but this could soon be reality with the rapid development of humanoid robots from companies like Figure and Tesla. The latest of these is Figure 02, an AI-powered bot capable of performing ...