The stiffened artificial muscle can support up to 5 kilograms (11 pounds) — roughly “4,000 times its own weight.” The muscle ...

In 2020, at a time when people were stuck at home amid a global pandemic, endlessly scrolling through streaming platforms for a distraction, Real Steel came back to the zeitgeist in a significant way.

Rosie, American Steel's robotic arm with an 11-foot reach and a plasma torch for cutting steel, is all elbows. With a half million dollar price tag and its own little control booth, the robot can feel ...

Every year, MIT Technology Review releases its list of 10 Breakthrough Technologies, highlighting the innovations most likely to shape how we live, work and tackle the world’s biggest challenges.

The job of processing video after a large event must be a thankless one for whichever volunteer upon whose shoulders it falls, and thus it’s not unusual for talks at larger events to end up online ...

Boxing robots are the undisputed champions at the weekend box office. Hugh Jackman's "Real Steel," set in a near-future when robot fighters have replaced humans in the ring, debuted at No. 1 with ...

You’re sure to see adventure and get that warm feeling from the new movie “Real Steel,” but is it worth your money? Not really. “Real Steel” is an adventure/science-fiction/fantasy movie set in the ...

They revealed the prototypes at Comic-Con, but now NECA makes it official: the Steel Clan robot will join their Gargoyles action figure line. The toys based on the ’90s Disney animated series have ...

Back in 2011, a movie called 'Real Steel' hit theaters. It was all about boxing robots going after each other in both official and underground fights, throwing punches left and right as their handlers ...

In 1921, Czech playwright Karel Čapek and his brother Josef invented the word "robot" in a sci-fi play called R.U.R. (short for Rossum's Universal Robots). As Even Ackerman in IEEE Spectrum points out ...