Have you ever seen a robot this gentle and dexterous? In more than a decade of writing about robotics, I've honestly never ...

Abstract: Object manipulation without relying on complex fixtures remains a largely unresolved issue in industrial robotics, being generally limited to pick-and-place operations of easy to grasp ...

The last decade has seen vast improvements in humanoid robots, but graduating to widespread use might require going back to the fundamentals. “Not reliably,” Hurst said. “I don’t think it’s totally ...

Stuttgart – Researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems (MPI-IS), the University of Michigan, and Cornell University have demonstrated a breakthrough in microrobotics: swarms of ...

It can sequentially grasp up to three objects, hold them securely, and return to reattach to its base.NPG Press/YouTube Engineers have showcased a robotic hand that can detach from its arm and move ...

Over the past decades, roboticists have introduced a wide range of systems that can effectively tackle some real-world problems. Most of these robots, however, often perform poorly on tasks that they ...

When it comes to navigating their surroundings, machines have a natural disadvantage compared to humans. To help hone the visual perception abilities they need to understand the world, researchers ...

Robotic surfaces consisting of many actuators can change shape to perform tasks, such as object transportation and sorting. Increasing the number of actuators can enhance the robot’s capacity, but ...