UV disinfection is one of the few areas where autonomous robots can be immediately and uniquely helpful during the COVID pandemic. Unfortunately, there aren’t enough…
Here’s another thing robots can do better than you: backflips. Boston Dynamics, the MIT offshoot company now owned by Japanese tech giant SoftBank, showed…
Taking design cues from origami, robotician Jamie Paik and her team created "robogamis": folding robots made out super-thin materials that can reshape and transform…
Do you remember when the Boston Dynamics robot called Atlas could walk on (gasp!) uneven ground a couple of years ago. Since then, we…
The HRP-5P is a humanoid robot from Japan’s Advanced Industrial Science and Technology Institute. The last iteration, HRP-4C, strived to make the robot seem…
In the future, smart textile-based soft robotic exosuits could be worn by soldiers, firefighters and rescue workers to help them traverse difficult terrain and…
Today, we rely on robotic spacecraft to extend our senses above and beyond Earth and to blaze a trail as precursors for human explorers.…
A new highly maneuverable search and rescue robot that can creep, crawl and climb over rough terrain and through tight spaces have been developed by…
The United States Military Research Division DARPA (The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency ) has developed tiny robots that may be used for rescue work…
The latest version of the robot 'Cheetah' is able to traverse serious obstacles and through difficult terrain without visual aids. The MIT-developed robot Cheetah is…
Biomedical engineer Giada Gerboni shares the latest developments in "soft robotics," an emerging field that aims to create nimble machines that imitate nature, like…
Keep moving forward—and upward! Stuntronics, a new robotic figure developed by Imagineers, performs extreme aerial maneuvers 60 feet in the air, making real-time decisions for…
Researchers at JSK Lab at Tokyo University have developed a drone that can change shape while flying. The drone is called DRAGON, which stands…
Hugh Herr’s bionic limbs have already revolutionized life for amputees (including himself). Now he’s envisioning new capabilities for everyone else.
Waltham, Mass.-based Boston Dynamics was founded by Raibert in 1992 as a spin-off out of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where it developed the…
Prosthetics may soon take on a whole new feel. That’s because researchers have created a new type of artificial nerve that can sense touch,…
Engadget Editor-in-Chief Christopher Trout dives head first into the hysteria surrounding the world’s first sex robot to draw a hard line between fact and…
Engadget Editor-in-Chief Christopher Trout dives head first into the hysteria surrounding the world’s first sex robot to draw a hard line between fact and…
The company voted most likely to spawn the Robopocalypse has released a pair of new videos showcasing the latest abilities of its artificial creations.…
A tiny robot is making leaps and bounds for small-scale locomotion. This soft robot really can walk the walk, as well as being able…