The Research Brief is a short take about interesting academic work. The big idea Segmented hinges in the long, thin...
Boston Dynamics, the company known for its robotic dogs, now has a humanoid robot capable of doing gymnastics. The robotics...
Boston Dynamics has published a pair of videos showcasing its Atlas robots completing a complex obstacle course that requires balancing...
Roboticists worldwide have been trying to develop autonomous unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) that could be deployed during search and rescue...
A team of researchers working at Seoul National University has developed a soft robot chameleon that can change its colors...
The sexbots are coming – or rather, they’re already here, and they’re becoming ever more sophisticated and life-like. That means...
Chinese electronics company Xiaomi has unveiled CyberDog, a quadruped robot that the company describes as more personable than others in...
Thanks to their swimming robot modeled after a lamprey, EPFL scientists may have discovered why some vertebrates are able to...
A new algorithm speeds up path planning for robots that use arm-like appendages to maintain balance on treacherous terrain such...
Peer into any fishbowl, and you’ll see that pet goldfish and guppies have nimble fins. With a few flicks of...
Underwater vehicles are typically designed for one cruise speed, and they’re often inefficient at other speeds. The technology is rudimentary...
When robots make mistakes—and they do from time to time—reestablishing trust with human co-workers depends on how the machines own...
