A robot to sort your plastic containers, clean your windows, and fetch you a drink may be on its way. It’s not a humanoid, but rather a little critter, built with soft artificial muscles powered by a ...

Although magnetically controlled soft robots have been around, this oozing version may invoke new feelings of terror, with AI-dystopian characteristics that would be a hallmark of any movie involving ...

One of the great science-fiction movie villains was the T-1000 shape-shifting robot from Terminator 2. The robot’s ability to shift between solid and liquid form meant it could get past almost any ...

A squishy octopus-shaped machine less than 2 centimetres tall is making waves in the field of soft robotics. The ‘octobot’ described today in Nature 1 is the first self-contained robot made ...

We’re more than two decades removed from August 29, 1997, the date that Terminator 2: Judgment Day predicted the fictional Skynet artificial intelligence system would become self-aware. Now, thanks to ...

They're not quite the humanoid killers seen in the Terminator films, but these unsettling machines have got the internet up in arms. Scientists have created tiny machines that can eat, grow and even ...

Science fiction is often several steps ahead of the real world when it comes to conjuring up new technologies. Back in 1991, ground breaking visual effects helped bring the shape-shifting liquid metal ...