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

Scientists have been working for years to create robots powered by living muscle tissue. These biohybrid robots combine ...

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 world leader in lifelike humanoid robots has opened its doors for a rare look at its droid creation process. Engineered Arts is a company in Cornwall, UK, whose bots have been shipped all over the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...