It’s a game a lot of us played as children—and maybe even later in life: unspooling measuring tape to see how far it would ...

ensuring a stable contact between robots and the objects they are holding throughout a manipulation task. "Traditional approaches to robotic manipulation rely heavily on prior knowledge of object ...

Researchers have built a flower-shaped robot that can pick up objects more than 100 times its own weight. The robot has an origami "magic ball" skeleton, and its main advantage is that it's able ...

Climbing stairs, for example, is a tough thing for a robot. Recognizing objects is another area where humans are generally much better than robots. Kids can recognize blocks, shapes, colors ...

Footage shows the robotised gunk, less than 10mm wide, pushing through metal bars and engulfing a small object. The liquid robot can even move across the surface of water, the research published ...

The large tech companies investing in them plan to have them perform tasks with hands that can grip objects without damaging ...