TL;DR: Humanity's most complex piece of biological machinery – the hand – remains the blueprint for robotics' most challenging unsolved problem. If engineers can crack it, the robots taking shape in ...

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Some of Ithaca’s best young tinkerers are gearing up for a robot battle, and they’re giving you the chance to check out their latest builds. No, this isn’t Real Steel or I-Robot; these bots don’t box, ...

A new Seattle-area startup is betting that robotic arms can help restaurants and construction sites improve efficiency and address labor shortages. Founded earlier this year, Ally Robotics is ...

Robots are everywhere, from the assembly line of major factories to the vacuums cleaning the living room carpet. As big tech companies continue to innovate, they are only becoming increasingly woven ...

Human skin transmits sensory information as electrical pulses, or spikes, that encode signals related to pressure and pain. NRE-skin mimics this biological process by converting pressure ...

Watch how a US robotics firm trains a dual-arm robot to fold a towel autonomously using vision and human demonstrations.