In 2026, AI is increasingly entering the physical world. Rather than being confined to software and apps running on our computers and phones, it will share our lives with us in the form of physical ...

A snapshot of the unidirectional hopping robot at the beginning of its motion. Its from limbs actuates in synch initiating hopping motion with no control, only single-constant air pressure is applied.

A lot of the stuff we use today is largely made by robots—arms with multiple degrees of freedom positioned along conveyor belts that move in a spectacle of precisely synchronized motions. All this ...