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

By combining soft materials, cloud-scale simulation, and learning from human motion, researchers are teaching robots to grasp ...

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 ...

It is not hard to find popular depictions of robots in the future. What comes to my mind is Rosie the robot maid from the animated comic “The Jetsons.” Ever faithful and dependable, she is as much a ...

Like many college students, Jackal is still learning to make his own way in life. The little rover is part of a project at the University of Texas' Autonomous Mobile Robotics Laboratory, teaching ...

DeepMind has shared the discovery of 2.2 million new crystals – equivalent to nearly 800 years’ worth of knowledge. They introduce Graph Networks for Materials Exploration (GNoME), a new deep learning ...

Over the past decades, roboticists have introduced a wide range of systems that can effectively tackle some real-world ...

Opentrons, a leader in lab automation, announces the launch of its Opentrons Flex robot, a new generation of affordable and easy-to-program liquid-handling lab robots designed to level the playing ...

A state-of-the-art laboratory rolled into Cambria County Tuesday. The Thoracic Oncology Mobile Experience is an 18-wheel truck that travels across the country highlighting the latest robotic-assisted ...

Researchers have used a cutting-edge robotic system capable of synthesizing hundreds of metal complexes to develop a possible ...

Robot vacuums have steadily improved their cleaning performance and object avoidance over the years, but during our testing at CNET Labs, we discovered an odd trade-off.