Robotics news 42 stories
Future robots could avoid damage by rolling up like armadillos ↗
Nature has long served as a source of inspiration for scientific innovations.
Swiss Army knife-like surgical robot fits on your fingertip ↗
Picture a surgical robot that can move, cut tissue, release drugs, grip and store samples, and wirelessly generate heat.
New 3D printing tech is set to give robots human-like muscles ↗
The day is coming when you may walk past a robot and have no idea it was a robot.
Dissimilar robots can 'learn' to perform tasks without needing new code ↗
It’s fairly easy for people to learn from other people – we’ve been doing it for around 300,000 years – because we can observe, copy, and modify what they’re doing.
Strap into this real-life mecha suit for just $650,000 ↗
Unitree has just gone and made many a kid-at-heart's wildest dream come true.
Heated PLA robo-octopus gripper goes limp to grapple, hard to lift ↗
Countless industrial tools and robots need to grip things, and because we humans learn to grip since infancy, we can easily underestimate how complex gripping actually is.
Motion-capture exoskeletons let violinists feel each others’ subtlest moves ↗
World-renowned science fiction author Arthur C.
SAIL tech lets robots perform human-scale tasks far more quickly ↗
Thanks to researchers at Georgia Tech, robots have taken several new steps towards replacing human labor – and not simply for dangerous tasks such as mining the depths of the Earth and exploring the Moon, or difficult…
Watch: Sony's insane autonomous robot shows off 'superhuman' skills ↗
Flying under the radar of robot hype, Sony AI's Ace has shown off its rapid-speed learning abilities that are seriously remarkable, displaying powerful split-second decision-making while taking on some of the best table…
Just call these tiny autonomous construction robots “antdroids” ↗
Roboticists at Harvard and the Indian Institute of Technology Madras – very smart folks indeed – somehow entirely missed the great name “antdroids” when building the insectoid drones they call RAnts (robotic ants, which…
Amazingly lifelike robofish is made for maintenance-free aquariums ↗
An aquarium can really add a touch of class to a home or business, particularly if it's got some fancy fish in it – but such fish can be very hard to keep.
Soft-bodied origami robot moves without motors or gears ↗
"Ancient Japanese Art Brings Spineless Robot To Life!" Sounds very much like a movie plot summary.