Ancient mudras offer a blueprint for smoother robot hand movement and could inspire new approaches to motor training and ...

Boston Dynamics has released a new explanation of one of Atlas’s most striking behaviors. It’s an eerie, contortion-like way ...

A robot observes its reflection in a mirror, learning its own morphology and kinematics for autonomous self-simulation. The process highlights the intersection of vision-based learning and robotics, ...

Autonomous sidewalk delivery company Serve Robotics is on the move in parts of Alexandria. The technology has already ...

It'll likely be a while before we have humanoid robots taking over our household chores, but what you can count on sooner is ...

Smart materials can change their shape or form in response to external stimuli, making them indispensable for many applications, including health equipment and automobiles, among others. Now, a ...

A soft electroactive gel enables untethered robots to deform, grip, and move using only external electric fields, eliminating the need for internal wiring or circuitry. (Nanowerk Spotlight) The ...

Today's robots perform safety checks at industrial plants, conduct quality control in manufacturing, and are even starting to keep hospital patients company. But soon -- perhaps very soon -- these ...

Earlier this year, a robot completed a half-marathon in Beijing in just under 2 hours and 40 minutes. That’s slower than the human winner, who clocked in at just over an hour—but it’s still a ...

Swiss scientists create grain-sized robot that surgeons control with magnets to deliver medicine precisely through blood ...

(Nanowerk News) By watching their own motions with a camera, robots can teach themselves about the structure of their own bodies and how they move, a new study from researchers at Columbia Engineering ...