Scientists at the University of Texas at Arlington, for example, have built a soft exoskeleton that fastens onto the arm and, in one recent study, reduced how hard participants’ biceps and triceps had ...

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

The robot is hard to see without a microscope. It’s small enough to rest on the ridge of a fingerprint and can operate in ...

Boston Dynamics product lead Aya Durbin discusses Atlas, industrial humanoid robots, and what it takes to make humanoids ...

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

Doctoral student Eshwara Prasad Sridhar demonstrates a robot exoskeleton on Thursday, Dec. 4, 2025, at UT Arlington's Research Institute in Fort Worth. Shafkat Anowar / Staff Photographer What if you ...

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Since Boston Dynamic first teased its BigDog robot in 2004, four-legged hound automatons have exploded in popularity. There are now dozens of robot dogs in development, ranging from military and ...

AgiBot, a humanoid robotics company based in Shanghai, has engineered a way for two-armed robots to learn manufacturing tasks through human training and real-world practice on a factory production ...

A laboratory in Pittsburgh’s Bakery Square is poised to make the next breakthrough in wheelchairs, a mostly stagnant industry with huge quality of life implications for millions of disabled Americans.

The Roborock Saros Z70 is a unique robot vacuum and mop with an interesting feature — a mechanical arm! Originally sold for $2,600, it’s on sale for the first time from Amazon with a 46% discount that ...

With a gimbal-mounted camera and some AI smarts, you could potentially have your phone compose better shots for you, take better selfies, and follow your face while you're on a video call. I just ...