Motherboard follows Melissa Loomis, an amputee from Ohio, who had experimental nerve reversal surgery and is going to Johns Hopkins' Applied Physics Lab to test…
Researchers have now shown a robot how to flip nunchucks to demonstrate an intuitive approach for teaching complex manual tasks. The engineers say in research…
Autoblog visits Korean robotics company Hankook Mirae Technology and test drive their giant mecha robot (Hankook Mirae Technology’s ‘Method-2’ Robot is a Giant Mecha).
Published in Science Magazine this week is a study detailing how researchers have built soft robots with a material that, with a little heat, can…
That science fiction future where robots can do what people and animals do may be closer than you think. Marc Raibert, the founder of Boston…
Garner Holt Productions has built thousands of animatronic figures for theme parks over the course of its 35-year history. The studio has taken charge of…
Yoichi Masuda and Masato Ishikawa detail their work on this mobile robot in a paper, Development of a Deformation-driven Rolling Robot with a Soft Outer…
Wireless, battery-free folding robots are powered by electromagnetic fields, enabling them to move without bulky batteries. Credit: Wyss Institute at Harvard University.
Engineers have designed a cool soft robot that moves by extending an artificial tendril into its surrounding environment, they report today in Science Robotics. According…
Bats have long captured the imaginations of scientists and engineers with their unrivaled agility, but their complex wing motions pose significant technological challenges for those…
Japan's Space Agency JAXA has released a picture and film on their little floating ball-shaped robot JEM Internal Ball, also known as the "Int-Ball" that…
TechCrunch visits Carnegie Mellon robotics spinoff HuMoTech (short for Human Motion Technologies). HuMoTech has developed robotic feet that make it easier for amputees to test…
Building upon previous soft exosuit technology, researchers at the Wyss Institute and Harvard SEAS have developed a soft exosuit for running. This exosuit applies forces…
Earlier this year, scientists at the Imperial College London announced smart sensor technology that allows a robot arm to be controlled via signals from nerves…
In the MegaBot web-tv series we get to follow MegaBots Inc. building an enormous robot, the Mark 3. The team is now testing the legs…
The world’s first giant, manned robot “Method-2” took some of its first steps in the Gunpo studio of Hankook Mirae Technology recently. The Mech ('Mecha')…
Artificial intelligence and automation stand to upend nearly every aspect of modern life, from transportation to health care and even work. So how did we…
The search for life beyond Earth needs robots. But to explore distant ocean worlds like Europa, we’ll need a new set of tools to drill…
The Northeastern University has been tasked with prepping NASA’s Valkyrie robot for future missions to Mars. Both the robotics labs at MIT and Northeastern got…
At the USA Science & Engineering Festival in Washington, D.C., Festo, a German industrial automation company, brought along some of its incredible robotic animals for…