Imagine a rubber band that turns into a steel cable on command. Now imagine it’s inside a robot. That’s the basic trick of a new artificial muscle built by researchers at the Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST) in South Korea.

Bill Whitaker is an award-winning journalist and 60 Minutes correspondent who has covered major news stories, domestically and across the globe, for more than four decades with CBS News. For decades, engineers have been trying to create robots that look ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I explore humans, technologies, and what’s next. Dec 01, 2025, 01:14pm EST As factories finalize 2026 budgets, a costly choice looms: invest in human-shaped machines (humanoid robots ...

Meta bought humanoid startup Assured Robot Intelligence to beef up its AI models for robots, the company said.

Robotics companies want tremendous amounts of data on how we move our hands and limbs, and their tactics are getting strange. I was recently invited to join an app that would pay me cryptocurrency to film myself doing tasks like putting food into a bowl ...

Apptronik, a fast-growing startup that makes artificial intelligence-powered humanoid robots, has secured about $520 million in a new funding round that values the company at more than $5.5 billion, around three times its valuation from its initial Series ...

Bill Whitaker is an award-winning journalist and 60 Minutes correspondent who has covered major news stories, domestically and across the globe, for more than four decades with CBS News. Aliza Chasan is a Digital Content Producer for "60 Minutes" and ...