Over the past decades, roboticists have introduced a wide range of systems that can effectively tackle some real-world problems. Most of these robots, however, often perform poorly on tasks that they ...

An innovative bimanual robot displays tactile sensitivity close to human-level dexterity using AI to inform its actions. An innovative bimanual robot displays tactile sensitivity close to human-level ...

Trends such as industry-specific AI and a new data economy will affect physical AI in 2026, says a Universal Robots executive ...

A caregiving robot that responds to spoken instructions while performing physical tasks may make robots easier to use and understand.

Researchers at Rice University, Houston, TX, have developed a soft robotic arm capable of performing complex tasks such as navigating around an obstacle or hitting a ball, guided and powered remotely ...

Two researchers at UC Berkeley and ETH Zurich have harnessed the power of OpenAI’s GPT-4o large language model to teach cheap robot arms to clean up spills. It’s a clever demonstration of how AI ...

Humanoid robots have quietly crossed a threshold from lab demos to real industrial work, and the software making that leap ...

Humanoid robots have come on leaps and bounds in recent times, and much is expected of the advanced machines in the coming year. The process of training humanoid robots can take various forms. Unitree ...

An innovative bimanual robot displays tactile sensitivity close to human-level dexterity using AI to inform its actions. The new Bi-Touch system, designed by scientists at the University of Bristol ...