The robot, built by local robotics firm OryLab and called OriHime, offers guided walking tours to visitors to Japan’s capital ...

When Cal Poly student Alex Sahli was a young child playing with Legos, he never imagined that he’d someday see his own face on one of the brand’s characteristic plastic minifigures. Fast forward to ...

What began as a childhood hobby turned into something much bigger for Oregon native Alex Sahli. Sahli, a junior studying computer science at Cal Poly, has been building LEGO sets his entire life. His ...

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The global robotics sector continues to grow as Taiwanese transmission component manufacturer Chieftek Precision announces a strategic focus on robot development, moving beyond humanoid forms to offer ...

Multivariate porous materials (MTV) are like a "collection of Lego blocks," allowing for customized design at a molecular level to freely create desired structures. Using these materials enables a ...

I don't usually get too excited about user-submitted designs on the Lego Ideas website, especially when those ideas would require negotiating a license with another company—user-generated designs need ...

Lego is bigger than ever, and it has adults (and IP) to thank. The Lego Group says it released 314 Lego sets in the first six months of 2025—a company record—and announced record revenue of 34.6 ...

John McCormick receives funding from the Australian Research Council. Robots come in a vast array of shapes and sizes. By definition, they’re machines that perform automatic tasks and can be operated ...

Watch Boston Dynamics’ Atlas robot doing training routines, or the latest humanoids from Figure loading a washing machine, and it’s easy to believe the robot revolution is here. From the outside, it ...