The proposed robotic hand is designed for dexterity and has versatile functions for grasping, crawling and locomotion.

The result is something akin to Thing from “The Addams Family” — with all the scamper and skill, but none of the skin or ...

Measuring just 200 by 300 by 50 micrometers — smaller than a grain of salt and roughly the size of a single-celled paramecium ...

Shellfish and robots might sound like they have nothing in common, but according to Ph.D. candidate Aleix Costa, roboticists can learn a lot from nature. His research aims to bring these two worlds ...

The Safeforest project, a CMU Portugal Large Scale Collaborative Project, hosted a final Workshop on May 4th at the Instituto de Sistemas e Robótica da Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal. The event ...

Hugging Face appears to be the latest AI player joining the robotics race, as a former Tesla scientist says he's starting an "ambitious" open-source robotics project at the AI tech platform. "After 3 ...

A laboratory in Pittsburgh’s Bakery Square is poised to make the next breakthrough in wheelchairs, a mostly stagnant industry with huge quality of life implications for millions of disabled Americans.

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. To call soft robotic hands “complex” is a bit of an ...

Soft actuation remains the key bottleneck in creating soft robots with flexible deformation and agile locomotion similar to nature creatures. Despite extensive efforts, it remains performance ...

The 2004 sci-fi action flick I, Robot (streaming now on Peacock) features Will Smith as Del Spooner, a Chicago detective in the year 2035. It’s a loose adaptation of Isaac Asimov’s robot stories, ...

It’s the metal, plastic, and wires that give the robot its shape and allow it to move around. Engineers in this field design ...