To reliably complete household chores, assemble products and tackle other manual tasks, robots should be able to adapt their ...

Orbital Robotics, a space startup founded by Blue Origin veterans, is recruiting partners in its quest to build AI-powered ...

Sharpa's newly unveiled full-body humanoid robot North built a paper windmill, dealt cards, and clicked pictures with human-like dexterity.

The committee cited interviews with police commanders in an effort to buttress President Trump’s federal takeover of law enforcement and the National Guard deployment in the capital city. By Minho Kim ...

Scientists are using artificial intelligence to help bionic limbs act more like natural ones. NPR's Jon Hamilton reports on an experimental hand that shares control with the user to carry out tricky ...

Why can’t a robot do the dishes? Well, it can, but maybe not as well or as cheaply as we’d hoped. More than once, I have started a robotics article with an appeal to the Jetsons tv show of the late ...

Abstract: Manipulating deformable objects (DOs) that change shape during operations poses a challenge for robots due to the complexity of modelling and predicting the object’s state. This challenge is ...

As the need for gentle, shape-adaptive handling of fragile matter grows, conventional rigid and silicone-based grippers still struggle to grasp ultra-soft foods, biological tissues or curved devices ...

What makes a humanoid hand so fascinating? Imagine a robotic gripper delicately assembling intricate components on a factory floor or carefully holding fragile medical instruments during surgery.

We hear a lot about the benefits of our own opposable thumbs – our ability to grasp, grip and manipulate objects using our fingers. An opposable thumb is a digit (finger or toe) that can be rotated to ...