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MIT built a deep learning neural network to aid the design of soft robots, such as these iterations of a robotic elephant. | Photo Credit: MIT There are some tasks traditional robots – the rigid and metallic kind –...

The University of Michigan (U-M) and Ford Motor Company today opened a $75 million, state-of-the-art robotics research center. The U-M Ford Motor Company Robotics Building brings together U-M researchers from 23...

This quadruped, called Dyret, automatically adapts its morphology to different conditions in unstructured outdoor environments. The four-legged robot Dyret can adjust the length of its legs to adapt the body to the...

Researchers fitted exoskeleton users with cameras and are optimizing computer software to process the video feed to recognize stairs, doors and other surroundings. | Photo Credit: University of Waterloo Robotics...

The Waymo Open Dataset contains 570-plus hours of unique motion behavior data. | Photo Credit: Waymo Developing autonomous vehicles has turned out to be much harder than originally thought. Companies across the board,...

  A virtual Atlante exoskeleton moving from sitting to standing position. | Credit: University of Michigan Exoskeleton users can now go from sitting to standing safely and without assistance based on the work of...

This quadruped relies on a series of valves that open and close in a specific sequence to walk. | Credit: UCSD Engineers at the University of California San Diego have created a four-legged soft robot that doesn’t...

By placing a camera inside a robot, researchers can infer how the person is touching it and what the person’s intent is just by looking at the shadow images. | Credit: Cornell University Cornell University researchers...

Scientists discover how to make materials that snap and reset themselves, only relying upon energy flow from their environment. This research could enable future military robots that are able to move off their own...

MIT developed ‘robomorphic computing, an automated way to design custom hardware to speed up a robot’s operation. | Credit: Jose-Luis Olivares, MIT Contemporary robots can move quickly. “The motors are fast, and...

Universal Robots cobots rendered using the Robotics Toolbox for Python. | Peter Corke For tens of thousands of students globally, over the last two decades, a part of their education involved an open-source software...

Dr. Xingyuan Xu with the integrated optical microcomb chip, which forms the core part of the optical neuromorphic processor. | Credit: Swinburne University An international team of researchers, led by Swinburne...

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) announced the finals of the DARPA Subterranean (SubT) Challenge will be held at the Louisville Mega Cavern in Louisville, Kentucky on September 21-23, 2021. The...

The flower-like set of points represents all possible shapes the shape-changing robots can take on. In line with rattling theory, the most common shapes are also the most orderly with the lowest rattling (shown in...

Study participants using the robotic hand shown in the diagram on the left all reported little change in the location of the sensation provided by their device, feeling it in their middle finger, palm, or at the base...

A new ROS driver for ABB robots was introduced at the recent ROS-Industrial Conference. The driver, which is now available on GitHub, is designed to ease interaction between ABB robot controllers and ROS-based systems...

Illustration of the twining motion in a twining plant (left); Spiral soft robotic gripper before actuation (center); Actuated soft spiral gripper holding a flower. | Credit: University of Georgia College of...

Researchers at Northwestern University have developed a new material that acts as a soft robot. They said the lifelike construct can walk at human speed, pick up and transport cargo to a new location, climb up hills,...