The winning robot of the MassRobotics Form & Function Challenge was Northeastern University's Soft Robotic Arm Screwdriver.

I asked one of the creators of the arms, Professor Masahiko Inami, to tell me more. This is a small copy of this movement. So physical computing to avoid collision. Also, it's very intuitive. It's ...

Researchers unveil algorithm for tunable metastructures with 6DOF, powering next-gen wearable, robotic, and aerospace systems.

Robotic telesurgery is a breakthrough for global medicine, but its success will depend on solving latency issues and improving infrastructure. Robotic telesurgery allows surgeons to perform procedures ...

Robot vacuums have evolved exponentially in just a few years, progressing from relatively low-powered models that simply rolled around and “found” their way, to powerful vacuum and mop combos ...

[Tazer] built a small desktop-sized robotic arm, and it was more or less functional. However, he wanted to improve its ability to pick things up, and attaching a pneumatic gripper seemed like the ...

Musk said the rare earth magnets are needed for the arm of the robots in order to allow the machine powered by artificial intelligence (AI) to fit in small spaces. China has approximately 44 ...

Step aside Cleatus (that football robot mascot you’ve seen on NFL broadcasts over the years), because Hasbro has partnered with the NFL for a collection of Transformers figures that can be ...

Robotic surgery technology is capable of more precise movements than the human hand and could transform care for patients operated on by surgeons in specialist NHS centres. The 11 systems will be ...

The centre is 43 percent owned by two state-owned enterprises, while tech giant Xiaomi’s robotics arm and leading Chinese humanoid robot firm UBTech have equal share in the rest. Tang Jian ...