SAN FRANCISCO--On one side of the arena looking deceptively innocuous sits "Megabyte," a steel wedged drum weighing several hundred pounds. Across the floor is repeat champion and audience favorite ...

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.

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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 ...

A DreamWorks release distributed by Disney, "Real Steel" added $22.1 million in 19 overseas markets for a worldwide total of $49.4 million. The movie casts Jackman as a former boxer reluctantly thrown ...

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 ...

The stiffened artificial muscle can support up to 5 kilograms (11 pounds) — roughly “4,000 times its own weight.” The muscle can stretch up to 12 times its original length in its softened state.

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.

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 ...