Humans place a lot of stock in overcoming nature. It's the core of our identity: We rose above the daily scramble for survival, formed society, created art and leisure and religion. By contrast, the ...

Robots could soon be able to autonomously complete search and rescue missions, inspections, complex maintenance operations ...

Robots, the team argues, can mimic these abilities using a quantum magnetometer (which detects magnetic field direction).

A team led by the University of Oxford has developed a new class of soft robots that operate without electronics, motors, or ...

Climbing robots represent a rapidly evolving field in robotics, offering innovative solutions for tasks that are often hazardous, labour‐intensive or inaccessible for humans. These systems utilise ...

Human–robot collaboration and interaction represent a rapidly evolving interdisciplinary field in which robotics, artificial intelligence and human factors engineering converge to develop systems that ...

According to the company, the robot has 82 degrees of freedom, which enable smooth, flexible movements, and is powered by ...

Suspended on a cable fixed between two trees in front of the Engineering Gateway building on UC Irvine’s campus hangs the RaccoonBot. And well, he’s just adorable. “The ‘cute factor’ wasn’t just a ...

TORONTO (Reuters) - “The Wild Robot,” an animated science fiction story by DreamWorks, explores both the good and the bad sides of technology, its star Lupita Nyong’o said on Sunday at the feature's ...

When robots are built with biological materials, they have the potential to achieve remarkable behaviors typically only seen ...

It’s not difficult to find a connection with Roz, voiced by Lupita Nyong’o, in The Wild Robot, especially for songwriter Maren Morris, who had a young child when she began writing the original song ...