Imagine driving a car with a steering that doesn't respond instantly and a GPS that always reflects where you were a second ...

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

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

A robot can now travel through the human body to cure diseases. Scientists have created a Transformers-style robot inspired by the Japanese paper-folding art of origami. The shape-shifting device is ...

The humanoid Atlas robot performs some strange contortions to get up from a lying position. An engineer explains why.

Roboticists from the nation’s top universities recently created a self-aware mechanical arm that taught itself how to move. Hop Lipson shows an audience the Self-Aware robotic arm he's been involved ...

One approach my group is exploring is giving robots a degree of “local intelligence” in their sensorised bodies. Humans ...

In the world of robotics, we’ve often seen robots rely on their mechanical hands to pick up and manipulate objects. But that approach doesn’t quite capture the full essence of how humans interact with ...

Rodney Brooks knows a fair bit about robots. Besides being a pioneer of academic robotics research, he has founded companies that have given the world the robot vacuum cleaner, the bomb disposal bot, ...

What if a robot could show us how the brain keeps us balanced? UBC scientists built one – and their discovery could help shape new ways to reduce fall risk for millions of people.

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