Soft robots that run on air instead of electricity are starting to behave less like simple inflatable toys and more like autonomous creatures. Built from flexible materials and intricate channels, ...

A new breakthrough could lead to the development of paper-thin, self-healing biological robots that can swim through water to ...

MIT engineers have built a paper-thin swimming robot powered by living muscle cells that respond to flashes of light, ...

Robots that move, sense and even coordinate with one another usually bring to mind tangled wires, circuit boards and humming motors. In a new study from the University of Oxford, all of that ...

Remember that “dancing pencils” game schoolchildren played, where they passed two pencils through a small rubber band, ...

A robot arm that bends like an elephant's trunk can slip into tight spaces and handle fragile objects. Controlling it is ...

Consumer robotics companies have spent years trying to build artificial companions that feel less like toys and more like emotionally engaging household devices. From the early experiments of Atari co ...

Humanoid robots built for caregiving tasks are moving from research labs into real living rooms, pushed by a wave of new hardware launches, open AI models, and early clinical evidence that older ...

Researchers at Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M) have developed a new methodology for a robot to learn how to move its arms autonomously by combining a type of observational learning with ...