Robotic vehicles are used to fight against mosquitos carrying dengue

Effectiveness of using automatic vehicles to monitor sewers for Aedes mosquitos and carry out eradication.

Sponge provides a soft touch to robotic devices

A simple sponge has improved the ability of robots to grasp objects.

A new approach to minimally invasive surgical instruments

This expands the possibilities for designing minimally invasive surgical tools.

A four-legged robotic system capable of playing soccer on a variety of terrains

"DribbleBot" uses reinforcement learning to adapt to different ball dynamics.

This cube-shaped robot can balance with only a single reaction wheel

The development has the potential for application in space.

A modular system helps produce efficient, scalable underwater robots

The system's simple repeating elements can assemble into swimming forms ranging from eel-like to wing-shaped.

Robots that resemble humans could be thought to have mental states

Some people perceive robots that display emotions as intentional agents, a study finds.

Silicone raspberry to tech harvesting robots to grasp fruit

Soft sensorized physical twin for harvesting raspberries.

MIT’s Mini Cheetah runs at the highest speed ever recorded

The robot learns to run entirely by trial and error in simulation.

Mimicking the human brain to help robot out of maze

Organic neuromorphic robots can now move too.

Representing robotic manipulator using a novel method

Contact-aware robot design.

A sharp-tipped robot finger to identify buried objects

Slender robotic finger senses buried items.

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