To reliably complete household chores, assemble products and tackle other manual tasks, robots should be able to adapt their ...

Machines are moving beyond single-point sensing. Multi-sensor fusion now delivers vision, ranging and inertial data. The ...

Eight years ago, researchers unveiled a new sensor technology, called GelSight, that uses physical contact with an object to provide a remarkably detailed 3-D map of its surface. Now, by mounting ...

Teaching a robot new skills used to require coding expertise. But a new generation of robots could potentially learn from just about anyone. Subscribe to our newsletter for the latest sci-tech news ...

A brand-new robot called the Touch Robot uses direct-drive motors, software algorithms, and cable-based actuators to finish and polish aerospace and other parts. In this Force Robot, tension cables ...

Robots of the entertainment industry are given life by character animation, where the goal is to emotionally connect with the audience to tell a story. In comparison, real-world robot movement design ...

Scientists have built microscopic, light-powered robots that can think, swim, and operate independently at the scale of ...

Using signals from a sensor placed on the human's arm, the robot can lift at the same time and intensity of the human, and then release the object when the human's muscle relaxes. (Joseph DelPreto / ...

Service robots are reshaping healthcare, retail, and hospitality by improving efficiency, safety, and daily operations ...