US robotics startup Kinsi Robotics released a new video last week showcasing its KR-1 robot folding a towel while explaining and demonstrating how it was trained to perform the task autonomously. The ...
Breaking away from conventional robots that perform only predefined functions once fabricated, researchers have developed a ...
Imagine a rubber band that turns into a steel cable on command. Now imagine it’s inside a robot. That’s the basic trick of a new artificial muscle built by researchers at the Ulsan National Institute ...
Engineers at MIT have devised an ingenious new way to produce artificial muscles for soft robots that can flex in more than one direction, similar to the complex muscles in the human body. The team ...
A premapped course, a crew of handlers and a world-beating time: here’s what this Beijing half marathon reveals about how far ...
Engineers have long tried to build artificial muscles that work like the ones in the human body—strong, flexible, fast, and ...
Welcome to this week’s episode of “man-made horrors beyond human comprehension.” A humanoid robot named DeREK had what you might call a “moment” on the floor of a San Francisco robotics lab this week, ...
Rather than replicating it directly, it’s more appropriate to use it as a source of ideas.” Humanoids face the same question.
H2L, a Tokyo-based technology startup, has launched the Capsule Interface. This breakthrough device lets you control robots with your entire body, transmitting not just movement but also physical ...