(Nanowerk News) Northwestern University engineers have developed a new soft, flexible device that makes robots move by expanding and contracting — just like a human muscle. To demonstrate their new ...

A robotic bee that can fly fully in all directions has been developed. With four wings made out of carbon fiber and mylar as well as four light-weight actuators to control each wing, the Bee++ ...

Chinese robotics company Unitree has unveiled a new patent for a robot joint control method and system based on motion capture equipment - one that maps human movements onto robots to enable seamless ...

Robots have a hard time performing some tasks that humans take for granted. Tasks like reaching behind objects on a shelf to get the one required for a job that situated in the back without disturbing ...

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has created a robotic arm that is being used to measure the properties of antennas rapidly and accurately. The robot, formally named the ...

If Futurama has taught me anything, it’s that one day factory robots will wander the streets drinking, swearing, and occasionally bending pieces of metal for a living. But that’s still a long ways off ...