Pop culture has often depicted robots as cold, metallic, and menacing, built for domination, not compassion. But at Georgia ...

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

Here’s the catch that’s dividing opinions: NEO has a brain that isn’t all its own. This robot relies on both AI and human ...

It sounds like something from a sci-fi film - but some scientists believe this clever new tech could help alleviate strains ...

Engineers at MIT have devised an ingenious new way to produce artificial muscles for soft robots that can flex in more than one direction, similar to the complex muscles in the human body. The team ...

Engineers are another step closer to developing soft robotics and wearable systems that mimic the ability of human and plant skin to detect and self-heal injuries. (Nanowerk News) A University of ...

Engineers have created a soft robot capable of detecting when and where it was damaged -- and then healing itself on the spot. Cornell University engineers have created a soft robot capable of ...

Fossils of a marine animal that lived 500 million years ago, combined with computer simulations, informed the design of a new soft robot. Soft robotics is the study of creating robots from soft ...