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Ice cream-making humanoid robot from China wows crowds at US tech show

PaXini Tech made TORA-ONE humanoid robot debut at CES 2026, where it completed an autonomous ice cream-making task.

This artificial skin could give ‘human-like’ sensitivity to robots

A new artificial skin unveiled at CES 2026 could give robots human-like sensitivity, helping machines better understand ...
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The best LEGO robot kits for hands-on STEM learning

Which LEGO robot kit is best? LEGO has been making childhood toys for more than 50 years and now even offer kits that allow your child to build a robot. These sets encourage young kids to explore and ...

PaXini Showcases Tactile Infrastructure That Brings Human-Like Touch to AI Robots

PaXini stole the show at CES 2926 by showcasing how ow tactile Infrastructure and embodied AI are changing the way robots ...
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Everything I touch turns into Lego bricks

Craftee turns everything he touches into Lego bricks in Minecraft. SpaceX explosion triggers emergencies Florida freeze map update as nearly entire state under warning, advisory American Airlines ...
The Conversation

The science of human touch – and why it’s so hard to replicate in robots

This article was commissioned in conjunction with the Professors’ Programme, part of Prototypes for Humanity, a global initiative that showcases and accelerates academic innovation to solve social and ...

Robots are getting neuromorphic skin that can feel pain

Human skin transmits sensory information as electrical pulses, or spikes, that encode signals related to pressure and pain. NRE-skin mimics this biological process by converting pressure ...
Daily Maverick

The science of human touch — and why it’s so hard to replicate in robots

As a researcher in soft robotics working on artificial skin and sensorised bodies, I’ve found that trying to give robots a sense of touch forces us to confront just how astonishingly sophisticated ...