Many companies at CES 2022 have been focused on products you can find on shelves, but Hyundai came to the show with nothing less than a grand vision of the future. The company used its presentation to outline a "metamobility" strategy where robots augment humanity's capabilities -- to the point where you could even reconfigure whole rooms, or use a robot as a stand-in while you navigate the metaverse at home. Boston Dynamics' robots also played a large part in the event, and Hyundai was keen to discuss everything from exoskeletons through to digital twins for machinery. It's a lot to take in, we know. Thankfully, you can learn about those and more through our six-minute supercut.

Engineered Arts, the company behind the human-like Mesmer robot series, has unveiled a new creation that may weird you out even more. "Ameca" is a new humanoid robot that doesn't have realistic hair and skin like Mesmer, but can instead show more human-like, natural-looking expressions than others we've seen, as The Verge has reported. Ameca at first displays confusion as it appears to wake up, then shows mild astonishment when it moves its hands (the hand gestures looks fairly real, too). It then appears surprised to see the viewer or camera, and finishes the video with a smile and welcoming hand gesture. The improvements in facial animation look to be the result of more fluid movements than we've seen before.

Roboticists at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne in Switzerland have unveiled a robotic eel that leverages sensory feedback from the water it swims through to coordinate its motion without the need for central control. A robotic eel designed by researchers at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL) can swim through water, receiving sensory data while in motion. The AgnathaX robot does not employ centralized programming, relying instead on skin sensors that can detect pressure changes in the surrounding water. The sensors are connected to the robot's motorized segments, enabling AgnathaX to produce swimming motions even if its segments are unconnected. This mechanism supports a peripheral control system for robots, and EPFL's Robin Thandiackal and Kamilo Melo said, "Robots that have our complete control architecture, with both peripheral and central components, are remarkably fault-tolerant and robust against damage in their sensors, communication buses, and control circuits."

The Robot Show at the Museum of Art and History in Lancaster, Calif., is comprised of eight exhibitions exploring the place robots, and other forms of artificial intelligence, have in a contemporary social landscape – from popular culture to nature and spirituality. Featured in the Main Gallery at MOAH is a retrospective of Emmy-nominated artist and animator, Dave Pressler. The exhibition is on view through September 26, 2018. Robert Nelson is encouraging viewers' Awakening in his new exhibition, a part of The Robot Show. Using a vivid palette, mixing pop and surrealist styles, Nelson juxtaposes images that play with deep, edgy ideas of technology.

FiveThirtyEight pitted 50 movies against 12 new ways of measuring Hollywood's gender imbalance The Bechdel-Wallace Test -- more commonly abbreviated to the Bechdel Test -- asks two simple questions of a movie: Does it have at least two named female characters? And do those characters have at least one conversation that is not about a man? A surprising number of films fail the test. Although the test is punchy and has become pervasive, it doesn't address the core inequalities in Hollywood films. Alison Bechdel -- an acclaimed cartoonist who was awarded a MacArthur "genius" grant in 2014 and whose memoir was adapted into a Tony Award-winning musical -- in no way set out to solve Hollywood sexism when she wrote the test into a comic strip in the mid-1980s.

An underwater robot has captured images of what is believed to be suspected debris of melted nuclear fuel inside one of the reactors at the Fukushima nuclear plant in Japan.

Professor Einstein rolls his eyes, sticks out his tongue, and can give a simple explanation of the theory of relativity. With his lifelike rubbery "skin" and bushy mustache, he can almost make you forget he's a robot. The Einstein robot is among dozens roaming the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas that can be your companion, educator or babysit your children. While robots have been around for years, advances in technology and artificial intelligence have allowed developers to give them traits that enable the devices to be seen as members of the family. "We make robots that have personality and come to life," said Andy Rifkin, chief technology officer of Hanson Robotics, the Hong Kong-based firm which is bringing the $299 Einstein robot to consumers this year.

LAS VEGAS – Professor Einstein can roll his eyes, stick out his tongue and give a simple explanation of the theory of relativity. With his lifelike rubbery "skin" and bushy mustache, he can almost make you forget he is a robot. The Einstein robot is among dozens roaming the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas that can be your companion or educator or baby-sit your children. Japan's SoftBank Robotics meanwhile announced a partnership that will allow its humanoid robot Pepper to travel onboard state-owned SNCF trains in France to assist travelers. While robots have been around for years, advances in technology and artificial intelligence have allowed developers to give them traits that enable the devices to be seen as members of the family.