Think of actuators as the robot’s muscles —the technology that enables humanoids to move. Actuators come in three types: ...

Human-like hands, fingers and even television camera eyes have been hallmarks of NASA’s Robonaut, but recent work seeks to give the nimble robot legs, or at least a leg, and even wheels. Robonaut took ...

LimX Dynamics has taken another leap in humanoid robotics with its latest demonstration of Oli. In a new YouTube video ...

Project Amplify is Nike’s latest attempt to put some spring in your step with help from a powered mechanism that enhances the ...

USF is working to improve communication in emergencies and everyday life by teaching robots to project instructions onto ...

Though Atlas was designed to resemble a person in other ways, its hands aren’t exactly one-to-one. Instead, company engineers ...

Robotics engineers worldwide are tackling one of the most challenging frontiers in artificial intelligence and mechanical ...

Thomas Black is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist writing about the industrial and transportation sectors. He was previously a Bloomberg News reporter covering logistics, manufacturing and private ...

It’s little surprise, then, that The Information reports Tesla—which had aimed to produce “thousands” of the robots by this ...

The Nagoya Institute of Technology in Japan has developed a passive walking robot capable of traveling continuously under its own inertia—without exterior power. All that’s required is slight downward ...

LEVA is designed to pick up and transport Euro-type cargo boxes weighing up to 85 kilograms. It uses a series of cameras and ...