Warehouse work is intense, repetitive and physically demanding. Kinisi Robotics, a U.S.-based startup, wants to change that. Its newest innovation, the Kinisi 01, also known as KR1, is a powerful ...

The next generation of soft robots might be folding and sliding as effortlessly as living tissue, say a team of engineers who have created “magnetic muscles” with 3D printing. Filling elastic, ...

Chinese researchers have developed a novel "e-skin" that allows robots to mimic our ability to touch and feel pain.

Robots just got a new brain and body. NVIDIA has unveiled a sweeping set of updates that could accelerate the development of humanoid robots and physical AI. The company announced the open-source ...

Future robots could soon have a lot more muscle power. Northwestern University engineers have developed a soft artificial muscle, paving the way for untethered animal- and human-scale robots. The new ...

It’s a bizarre sight: With a short burst of light, a sponge-shaped robot scoots across a tiled surface. Flipped on its back, it repeatedly twitches as if doing sit-ups. By tinkering with the light’s ...

A Korean research team has created a light-driven artificial muscle that functions independently underwater, advancing the future of soft robotics. The system, developed by the Korea Research ...

Light-powered artificial muscles for underwater robots with reversible, high-stroke actuation Demonstrating 3 times greater actuation stroke and 2 times higher work capacity than existing ...

A crawler robot made with the miura-ori origami pattern. The dark sections are affixed with thin "magnetic muscles" made by co-extruding rubber polymer and ferromagnetic particles, which move the ...

France-based InBolt, which has operations in Detroit, has launched its next-generation bin-picking solution, an AI-enhanced robot with human-like capabilities that enables greater flexibility on the ...

My dog is smart, but without an opposable thumb, he still can't open the door to let himself out. Humanoid robots have a ...