Rodney Brooks, the cofounder of Roomba vacuum creator iRobot, said the idea of humanoid robots as catchall assistants, the ...

Although they're constantly improving, robots aren't necessarily known for their gentle touch. A new robotic system from MIT ...

Tiny microrobots are learning to fly with insect-like speed and control, thanks to new AI-driven technology developed at MIT.

MIT engineers have quietly solved one of the biggest bottlenecks in living-tissue robotics, creating synthetic tendons that ...

Daniela Rus has spent her career breaking barriers—scientific, social, and material—in her quest to build machines that ...

MIT and NVIDIA Research researchers have developed a powerful new algorithm that drastically accelerates how robots plan their actions. Robots may complete intricate, multistep manipulation tasks in ...

It'll likely be a while before we have humanoid robots taking over our household chores, but what you can count on sooner is ...

Biohybrid robots that run on real muscle are shifting from science fiction toward workable machines. In labs around the world ...

Picture a robot capable of changing its shape on demand, squishing, bending, or stretching to perform various tasks like navigating tight spaces or retrieving objects. While this may sound like ...

Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have developed a micro-flapping-wing robot that exhibits ...

MIT-backed Pickle Robot Company debuts AI-powered systems that autonomously unload trucks and ease one of logistics’ toughest ...

The four-legged robots even kick around a soccer ball together. Massachusetts Institute of Technology's (MIT) simultaneously cute and unsettling "back-flipping" robot dogs enjoyed some time outside ...