New companies are building robots in record time ... and at record cost. Massive changes have made physical AI — giving AI a ...

Rodney Brooks knows a fair bit about robots. Besides being a pioneer of academic robotics research, he has founded companies that have given the world the robot vacuum cleaner, the bomb disposal bot, ...

Researchers at Case Western Reserve University have combined tissues from a sea slug with flexible 3-D printed components to build "biohybrid" robots that crawl like sea turtles on the beach. A muscle ...

A soft-and-stiff body puts a spring in a new jumping robot’s step. The body, made from a rubbery-to-rigid gradient of plastic, helps the bot bounce high and stick its landings, while offering ...

Okay, so let's unbolt some bots, spread their parts all over our virtual workbench, and talk about components. Figure 4.6 provides a basic rundown of robot anatomy, based on three common types of ...

It's looking more and more likely that tiny robots could one day be swimming and crawling through your body, delivering drugs or scrubbing out your arteries. But the human body is full of wildly ...

Five-foot-tall humanoid robots are being manufactured out of a small storefront in a Springfield strip mall. Each one has long jointed arms ending end in pincer-like hands. Four-wheeled bases give ...

Researchers have developed a tiny, flexible robot that could crawl through earthquake rubble to locate survivors or travel inside the human body to deliver medicine. These soft robots, made from ...

By using one physical principle—magnetism—to drive both movement and power, the team created a robot that is more efficient, ...