A TARS humanoid robot stitched embroidery live, achieving sub-millimeter precision in a task long considered impossible to ...

Step inside the Soft Robotics Lab at ETH Zurich, and you find yourself in a space that is part children's nursery, part ...

A soft patch on the arm could soon let you steer robots with simple hand movements, even while your whole body is in motion.

When the sensors and AI were helping, the participants could "very reliably" grasp a cup and pretend to take a sip, Trout ...

Designed for next-generation sustainable electronics, the new artificial synapse combines femtojoule-level power consumption with long-lasting memory and full biodegradability, pointing to ...

Researchers at the University of Utah now report a way to make that trade-off a little bit easier. By giving a bionic hand a ...

In September 2005, MD+DI published a story about researchers at Michigan State University who had built a robot designed for remote breast exams. The robot combined ultrasound technology and video ...

General-purpose robots remain rare not for a lack of hardware but because we still can’t give machines the physical intuition ...

Many leaders of those companies would like to temper those expectations. For all the recent advances in the field, humanoid robots, they say, have been overhyped and face daunting technical challenges ...

Google AI Studio lead Logan Kilpatrick believes 2026 will be a turning point for real-world robots. With rapid progress in ...

Lead author Marshall Trout, right, worked with four amputees to investigate how AI could be used to autonomously control an advanced prothesis. The AI-powered prosthesis was capable of working ...