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 ...

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 ...

AI and robotics are advancing rapidly, with innovations like Unitree Robotics’ Erbai robot ... market made back all its losses after Trump escalated the trade war Toyota's Solid-State Leap ...

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 ...

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.