Asoft-bodied humanoid robot developed in China can stretch its limbs to more than three times their original length, shrink ...

Humanoid robots look impressive and have enormous potential to change our daily lives, but they still have a reputation for ...

Over the next decades, robots are expected to make their way into a growing number of households, public spaces, and ...

China-based robotics firm LimX Dynamics has carried out a large-scale demonstration of autonomous humanoid robots operating ...

A new type of shape-shifting robot can amputate its leg to free itself from tricky situations. The robot is the brainchild of a group of engineers at a lab in Connecticut. The robot itself is ...

Fauna Robotics’ Sprout encourages human interactions with an expressive face and a soft foam body.

In a laboratory in Connecticut, a palm-sized silicone robot scrunches up its body to inch forward in a caterpillar-like motion. A brick tips over onto its leg, trapping it as it struggles to move on.

The symmetrical design and flexible fingers mean that the robot can transport objects on either side of its body. For humans, ...

In the picture an individual with a limb deficiency wears the system during familiarization. The researchers designed a soft prosthetic hand with two degrees of actuation, enabling it to perform ...

Matt Carney was good at building robots — he just didn’t want to. While earning his PhD at MIT, he’d spent years studying mechanical engineering and biomechatronics in service of developing bionic ...