The researchers behind the recent work, based in China, decided to implement something similar for an artificial skin that ...

If you accidentally put your hand on a hot object, you'll naturally pull it away fast, before you have to think about it.

Beijing’s near-term focus is less about consumer robots and more about getting bipedal machines to reliably perform ...

Humanoid robots are expected to be deployed in factories and households - carrying out both basic and, potentially, advanced tasks. Bringing robots that look and move like humans to households and ...

Many leaders of those companies would like to temper those expectations. For all the recent advances in the field, humanoid ...

It’s been quite a year for humanoid robots, with all manner of increasingly advanced designs coming to our attention. The ...

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

Sunday Robotics dropped a new video of their robot Memo in action performing pick-and-place actions with various objects.

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

New Zealand faces a healthcare worker shortage and more need for carers. London-based robot designer Rich Walker talks about ...

A soft patch on the arm could soon let you steer robots with simple hand movements, even while your whole body is in motion.

The human hand is amazingly complex. With 34 muscles, more than 30 tendons, and 27 bones, hands can grasp objects, express emotion, create works of art, and accomplish many of the tasks that drive ...