Researchers develop motor-free soft-rigid hybrid robots

Origami design helps create programmable robots.

How Fish and Birds Inspire Next-Gen Robot Swarms

Breakthrough offers way to develop AI to match flocking birds and schooling fish.

ANYmal: Meet the Robot That Can Rally With You in Badminton

A task that requires precise coordination of perception, locomotion, and arm swinging.

Paper Electrode Technology Enables New Generation of Soft Robots

The robots incorporated with paper electrodes and liquid crystal elastomer bilayer achieve asymmetric bending.

MIT’s robot lab assistant learns like a scientist

The system could streamline the development of more powerful solar panels.

Generative AI can help robots jump higher and land safely

The combination of Gen AI and physics simulation to refine robot designs.

New robot arm enables in-flight medical intervention

Remote relief of tension pneumothorax.

World’s first soft robots that can walk straight out of the machines

Scientists developed a low-cost, desktop 3D printing system for creating soft robots.

E-BAR: A mobile robot helps people sit and stand

The Elderly Bodily Assistance Robot.

Kawasaki Reveals CORLEO, a Hydrogen-Powered Robotic Horse

Kawasaki has unveiled a groundbreaking innovation in personal mobility with CORLEO, a robotic horse designed to tackle all terrains with exceptional agility. Powered by...

MIT engineers grow multidirectional artificial muscles inspired by the human eye

The future of robotics: Muscle tissue that bends, twitches, and glides

Meet Jack: A robot that navigates crowds like a pro

Jack the Crowd-Navigating Robot: A new era in human-robot interaction

New interactive system allows users to correct robot actions

Is your robotic helper making a mistake? New research offers a real-time fix

Revolutionary robotic shorts enhance walking efficiency in elderly

As people grow older, their walking efficiency decreases, posing mobility constraints and affecting independence and overall quality of life. Therefore, researchers are keen to...

Bird-inspired drone can walk, hop, and jump into flight

This greatly expands the range of potential environments accessible to unmanned aerial vehicles.

New technology mimics nature and makes effortless robot movements

It makes rhythmic movements calculable.

Grain-sized soft robots deliver drugs to the human body

This tiny robot can be controlled by magnetic fields to deliver medical drugs.

Biologists are using palaeo-inspired robots to demonstrate the evolution

As the transition from water to land is the most significant event in the history of life on the Earth, a group of researchers...

New tech helps free up more space for robots to ‘think’

Engineers have worked out how to give robots complex instructions without electricity for the first time.

MIT’s Clio enables robots to quickly map task-relevant objects

Helping robots zero in on the objects that matter.

Artificial muscle-powered robotic leg jumps across different terrains

Artificial muscles propel a robotic leg to walk and jump.

This hybrid robot is controlled by electrical signals in mushroom

The robots can potentially react to their environment better than their purely synthetic counterparts.

Programming robots to complete tasks faster

By exhibiting patience and waiting for teammates, collaborative robots complete tasks faster.

A real-to-sim-to-real approach to train precision home robots

Paving the way for customized household automation accessible to anyone.

Shape-shifting Transformer Bots can form more than 1,000 shapes

The findings could pave the way for shape-shifting artificial systems that can take on multiple functions.

New technology allows robots to survive through self-amputation

The technology not only aids in robot survival, it enables dynamic shape-change.

New, improved latch control helps build robots that leap like grasshoppers

The latch can be used to control jump performance across a wide range of terrains.
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