In some sense, Mr. Brooks has only himself to blame. The current humanoid craze is “kind of his fault,” said Anthony Jules, ...

Robot companies are racing toward a breakout year, but they'll have to confront some fundamental problems before making bigger promises.

The tiny, microscopic robot packs an onboard computer, solar cells, and propulsion system, and is capable of sensing its ...

General-purpose robots remain rare not for a lack of hardware but because we still can’t give machines the physical intuition ...

One of the most prominent skeptics is robotics pioneer Rodney Brooks, a co-founder of Roomba vacuum maker iRobot who wrote in ...

Inspired by vines’ twisty tenacity, engineers at MIT and Stanford University have developed a robotic gripper that can snake ...

MIT and Stanford built vine-like soft robots that wrap, lift, and gently carry objects — even humans — using inflatable ...

See new human-shaped robots, including MIMA’s skill-glove training for dishes and laundry, so you can gauge real home-ready ...

It'll likely be a while before we have humanoid robots taking over our household chores, but what you can count on sooner is ...

DIGITIMES observes that humanoid robots require field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) to execute multi-axis motor control for diverse tasks and to flexibly adjust designs according to different ...