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.

Sand. Many hate it because it’s coarse and rough and gets everywhere. But according to a leading robotics researcher at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), hightailing it onto some sand ...