MIT engineers have quietly solved one of the biggest bottlenecks in living-tissue robotics, creating synthetic tendons that ...

Picture a robot. What comes to mind? Perhaps a droid from Star Wars or The Jetsons: a machine that can move, speak and perform tasks all by itself. Or maybe your imagination jumps to humanoid robots à ...

New companies are building robots in record time ... and at record cost. Massive changes have made physical AI — giving AI a ...

Scientists have been working for years to create robots powered by living muscle tissue. These biohybrid robots combine ...

Humanoid robots now jog, jump, and balance mid-air, with Tesla Optimus 3 on display, helping you see where home and workplace ...

Across industries, companies are feeling the squeeze from labor shortages, rising costs and nonstop pressure to boost efficiency. Robots are quickly becoming real-life solutions, and their promise has ...

A robot trained on videos of surgeries performed a lengthy phase of a gallbladder removal without human help. The robot operated for the first time on a lifelike patient, and during the operation, ...

To a robot, it might look like something from a horror film. Parts — a battery, circuit boards and wiring —are arrayed in pieces on a white lab bench. Metallic arms and legs lay inert on nearby ...

AMES, Iowa – You may not remember it, but odds are you took a few tumbles during your toddler era. You weren’t alone. Falling, after all, is a natural consequence of learning to crawl, walk, climb and ...

Imagine having a continuum soft robotic arm bend around a bunch of grapes or broccoli, adjusting its grip in real time as it lifts the object. Unlike traditional rigid robots that generally aim to ...

At its heart, robotics is about building machines that can do things for us. Think of it as giving a machine a set of instructions and the ability to carry them out, often in places or for tasks that ...

Sixth-grader Rory Hinkle (right) works with fifth-grader Annika Bock on their robot mission Wednesday at Prairie Creek Intermediate School in Cedar Rapids. The team will be competing Saturday in the ...