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 ...

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 ...

Roborock's Saros Z70 is the first-ever robot vacuum with mechanical arm to tidy your space while it mops and vacuums. We got to test it at an exclusive prelaunch event.

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 ...

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 extend before bending. But to engineer, this game was an inspiration, ...

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

That’s because the tape is both robust and flexible; can be stored in a small container when retracted; and can reach far ...