Think of actuators as the robot’s muscles —the technology that enables humanoids to move. Actuators come in three types: ...

X’s Neo wants to be your housekeeper. First, it needs to be controlled by a human in your home. Cool with you?

Though Atlas was designed to resemble a person in other ways, its hands aren’t exactly one-to-one. Instead, company engineers ...

In the world of robotics, we’ve often seen robots rely on their mechanical hands to pick up and manipulate objects. But that approach doesn’t quite capture the full essence of how humans interact with ...

Harvard Medical School researchers are designing next-gen robots that can flex, contract, and grow like human beings.

We’ve been watching Boston Dynamics’ Atlas pull off backflips since 2017. Today, Figure’s humanoid can load a washing machine, low-cost $6,000 bipedal bots are hitting the market, and pilots are ...

Researchers from the Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (IIT) in Genoa (Italy) and Brown University in Providence (USA) have discovered that people sense the hand of a humanoid robot as part of their ...

University of Chicago computer scientist Sarah Sebo is programming robots to give empathetic responses and perform nonverbal ...

One day, robots might navigate through your blood vessels to break up clots, deliver targeted chemotherapy or repair ruptured blood vessels more efficiently and effectively than existing tools, ...

There is no avoiding robots. With increasing autonomy, satellites span the skies; vacuums vroom underfoot; and bots conduct surgery, deliver packages and explore the solar system. Robot expert Sooyeon ...

The titular character of the Apple TV+ series “Murderbot” doesn’t call itself Murderbot because it identifies as a killer; it just thinks the name is cool. Murderbot, a.k.a. “SecUnit,” is programmed ...