Robots now see the world with an ease that once belonged only to science fiction. They can recognise objects, navigate cluttered spaces and sort thousands of parcels an hour. But ask a robot to touch ...

As a researcher in soft robotics working on artificial skin and sensorised bodies, I’ve found that trying to give robots a sense of touch forces us to confront just how astonishingly sophisticated ...

They have team names like Bovine Intervention, Jabots, Dogs of Steel, Ursa Major and Vae Victis. They come from high schools in D.C., Maryland, and Virginia or represent their family and communities ...

If you accidentally put your hand on a hot object, you'll naturally pull it away fast, before you have to think about it.

Humans can detect buried objects without touching them, sensing faint pressure ripples in sand. Scientists are calling this ...

Haply's Inverse3 device controlling a Franka FR3 robotic arm inside NVIDIA Isaac Sim MONTREAL, QUEBEC, CANADA, December 17, 2025 /EINPresswire.com/ -- Haply Robotics ...

Over the last few weeks, iRobot has added Matter support to more of its Roomba robot vacuums, allowing them to be integrated ...

At the ViVa Vienna Memorial Day Festival, the James Madison High School Robotics Team shared their 120-pound robot with the public, including answering robotics-related questions. The JMHS Robotics ...

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Solving a technical challenge that has stymied science for 40 years, researchers have built a robot with an onboard computer, sensors and a motor, the whole assembly less than 1 millimeter in size — ...

Chinese researchers have developed a novel "e-skin" that allows robots to mimic our ability to touch and feel pain.