A video making its rounds on social media shows an engineer from a startup called Skild AI taking a chainsaw to the limbs of a robot dog.

Later scenes show even harder impacts. A running kick sends the robot sliding several feet. A double shove in quick succession forces it to make a mid-air adjustment. In every case, it lands, scans ...

The remarkable robot dog — or more accurately, its AI-powered brain — can even handle having its legs extended by wooden poles, or having wheels attached. Short of a rocket-propelled grenade coming ...

Today on "Uncanny Valley," we talk about why the AI industry is investing in the development of humanoid robots, and what ...