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

The ability to remotely control robots in real-time, also known as teleoperation, could be useful for a broad range of real-world applications. In recent years, some engineers have been trying to ...

Three soft robotics researchers from Fondazione Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia in Italy and the University of Montpellier in France have developed a unique snake-like robot that 3D prints its own ...

What if a robot could show us how the brain keeps us balanced? UBC scientists built one—and their discovery could help shape ...

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Researchers at Case Western Reserve University have combined tissues from a sea slug with flexible 3-D printed components to build "biohybrid" robots that crawl like sea turtles on the beach. A muscle ...

Scientists have been working for years to create robots powered by living muscle tissue. These biohybrid robots combine ...

As humans, our adjustments are easier than robots. We could walk and then shift to swimming immediately. However, in terms of tasks that are dangerous for a human to do, a robot is sent to do such a ...

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, ...

Okay, so let's unbolt some bots, spread their parts all over our virtual workbench, and talk about components. Figure 4.6 provides a basic rundown of robot anatomy, based on three common types of ...

Researchers have developed a tiny, flexible robot that could crawl through earthquake rubble to locate survivors or travel inside the human body to deliver medicine. These soft robots, made from ...