Chinese automotive company XPeng has been making a major splash with its Terminator-like humanoid robot, dubbed Iron. Footage of the company’s announcement showed the robot sauntering across the stage ...

Automation is getting a little out of control these days. Recent advances in the world of robotics have unleashed autonomous bodegas, sock-puppet style robo-servants, and even AI-powered dinosaurs.

A robot made of Lego can quickly perform an important step for creating machines made of DNA. “This started as a final project in an undergraduate lab course,” says Rizal Hariadi at Arizona State ...