A mosquito proboscis repurposed as a 3-D printing nozzle can print filaments around 20 micrometers wide, half the width of a ...

California startups are building robots to help with fold laundry and other tedious tasks as the race to dominate artificial ...

Step inside the Soft Robotics Lab at ETH Zurich, and you find yourself in a space that is part children's nursery, part ...

Computer-aided design (CAD) systems are tried-and-true tools used to design many of the physical objects we use each day. But ...

Founded in 1990 by three M.I.T. researchers, iRobot introduced its vacuum in 2002. Its restructuring will turn the company ...

Abstract: In a parts-to-picker system, robots move racks from the storage area to picking stations where pickers pick products from the racks. This paper proposes an Order Processing and Robot ...

Researchers developed soft microrobots that change shape with temperature and wirelessly transmit data, enabling real-time ...

Abstract: Underwater soft robots inspired by marine life have shown great potential in ocean exploration, monitoring, scientific research, etc., due to their excellent safety, compatibility and ...

Researchers have developed artificial tendons for muscle-powered robots. They attached the rubber band-like tendons (blue) to either end of a small piece of lab-grown muscle (red), forming a ...

There is a lot of anxious talk in share markets about whether we're in the midst of an AI bubble. We are, of course. It seems impossible for the profits from AI to be enough for a decent return on the ...