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Flesh-covered robots that can walk, jump, swim and move among us may be closer than we think. Researchers working out of ETH Zurich have been busy developing muscle actuators from centimeter-scale living tissue. These muscle actuators are the latest in a design program, and motion has been improved over 10 times compared with previous iterations.

Artificial intelligence (AI) is developing at a rapid pace and is increasingly being used by scientists to better understand climate change.

After extensive testing, we’re ready to name the best smartphones of 2026, and we don’t take these recommendations lightly.

North Carolina’s government spending watchdog has released, on average, a report approximately every three days this year, according to a WRAL analysis. Driving the surge, State Auditor Dave Boliek said, is the use of artificial intelligence.

VisionQuest, starring Paul Bettany as the titular android, will make its Disney+ debut in mid-October — and to celebrate its impending release, I’ve put together a tricky quiz that covers the superhero’s story so far in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU).

For most of us, our phone is the most important device we own. It’s a lifeline to your friends and family, and your primary gateway to the internet. Unless you’re still carrying around a separate camera, your phone is also your means of documenting the world around you. There’s a lot riding on this pocket-sized…

Central to the dire warnings about artificial intelligence’s potential danger to humanity is the risk that a “swarm” of AI agents could collaborate in nefarious ways, like hordes of digital extras from “The Matrix.”

At a two-day national conference on advanced manufacturing which concluded in Beijing on Thursday, industry experts called for leveraging artificial intelligence and intensifying efforts to overcome key technology bottlenecks to propel the sector’s development.

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New York City’s decision to ban artificial intelligence in public school classrooms until high school has become a major talking point among parents, politicians and education experts.