A kirigami-skinned soft robot powered by pneumatic muscles achieves crawling, steering and obstacle avoidance, advancing mobility for confined and rough terrain. (Nanowerk News) Limbless animals move ...

Robots are starting to flinch. New generations of electronic skin can register heat, pressure and even damaging force, then trigger lightning-fast reflexes that look less like code and more like ...

Robots are popularly conceived of as unfeeling automatons, but a new breakthrough out of China means they may soon be able to ...

A wave of recent research has brought robotic touch sensitivity closer to human fingertips than ever before, driven by ...

Last year, 21 humanoid robots squared up against each other in the World Humanoid Robot Games’ half marathon race in Beijing in an unintentionally hilarious debauchery of broken ...

Scientists have created electronic skin that can give physical self-awareness to flexible robots for the first time. A team from the University of Edinburgh said the devices could aid with people’s ...

TL;DR: Chinese EV maker Xpeng unveiled its eighth-generation IRON humanoid robots featuring synthetic skin for a warmer, more intimate feel. Designed as receptionists, tour guides, and personal ...

(A) Robot’s body featuring anterior and posterior segments and 2 proximity sensors mounted on its head. (B) Demonstration of different deformation modalities and schematic of inflated chambers. (C) ...

Robots have become remarkably good at seeing and moving, but their sense of touch still lags far behind that of humans. A new ...

Researchers developed a soft robotic skin that enables vine robots that are just a few millimeters wide to navigate convoluted paths and fragile environments. (Nanowerk News) To accomplish this, the ...

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Researchers developed a soft robotic skin that enables vine robots that are just a few millimeters wide to navigate convoluted paths and fragile environments. To accomplish this, the researchers ...