A premapped course, a crew of handlers and a world-beating time: here’s what this Beijing half marathon reveals about how far ...

US robotics startup Kinsi Robotics released a new video last week showcasing its KR-1 robot folding a towel while explaining and demonstrating how it was trained to perform the task autonomously. The ...

A paddle-wielding robot is so adept at playing table tennis that it is posing a tough challenge to elite human players and ...

For centuries, people tried to build ornithopters that flapped like birds, but none became a practical path to human flight.

Engineers have long tried to build artificial muscles that work like the ones in the human body—strong, flexible, fast, and ...

Engineers at MIT have devised an ingenious new way to produce artificial muscles for soft robots that can flex in more than one direction, similar to the complex muscles in the human body. The team ...

Breaking away from conventional robots that perform only predefined functions once fabricated, researchers have developed a ...

Welcome to this week’s episode of “man-made horrors beyond human comprehension.” A humanoid robot named DeREK had what you might call a “moment” on the floor of a San Francisco robotics lab this week, ...

H2L, a Tokyo-based technology startup, has launched the Capsule Interface. This breakthrough device lets you control robots with your entire body, transmitting not just movement but also physical ...

Silent Artificial Muscles: A team of researchers has developed artificial muscles that mimic human muscles. These could ...