When we tie our shoelaces or open a bottle of soda, we do it on autopilot, reflexively. Meanwhile, millions of people all around the world are deprived of this opportunity due to amputated limbs. Only ...

Scientists use millions of foam lattice combinations to create a robotic elephant with a twisting trunk and jointed limbs.

A cheetah's powerful sprint, a snake's lithe slither, or a human's deft grasp: Each is made possible by the seamless ...

Zimmer Biomet inked a $177 million deal to purchase Monogram Technologies, developer of a hands-free robotic surgery system ...

MIT developed a deep learning system that lets soft robots follow commands from a single image, enabling accurate, low-cost control in tight and rough spaces.

A research team at MIT has introduced a new method for controlling soft, flexible robots using just a single image—without ...

At Caltech, researchers have turned living jellyfish into low-cost, remotely controlled ocean robots — creating real-life ...

Study shows how photolithography techniques can be used to not just make a micron-scale shape, but control it, too.

A team from the University of Cambridge's Centre for Industrial Photonics has developed a new approach to cold spray, LACS, ...

Conventional robots, like those used in industry and hazardous environments, are easy to model and control, but are too rigid ...

Danish 3D printer maker Cobod and Technical University (TU) Braunschweig have unveiled a construction robot that prints ...

Although not nearly as intimidating as her ceiling-mounted hanging arm body, GLaDOS spent a significant portion of the Portal 2 game in a stripped-down computer powered by a potato battery. [Dave] ...