Ilia Malinin made history the last two seasons by landing the most difficult jump in figure skating time after time. This week, he plans to make some more by backflipping on the ice. Skate America, which runs Friday through Sunday in Allen, Texas, is the ...

The Unitree H1 robot is flipping the script on what humanoid robots can do — literally. This bipedal bot has just snagged the spotlight by pulling off a standing backflip without any hydraulics. That’s right, no bulky, leak-prone hydraulics here, just ...

First frowned up, then banned, the backflip has always held a rebel cache in the skating world. Now unbanned, today's skaters are using it to impress crowds and judges alike.