While design is crucial to make prosthetics or robot pants people actually want to wear, lessons from loyalty programs could ...

Most prosthetic hands today still struggle with a fundamental problem: No two amputees are the same, yet most devices are designed as if they are. That mismatch makes natural, intuitive control ...

The orbital surgery on the International Space Station returned the Canadian-built robot arm to full health after its "wrist" ...

Eleanor Tang-Smith co-founded a robotics company from scratch, having never written a line of code in her life. The former ...

Expanded Vention's AI-powered automation platform from collaborative robotics to industrial robot applications through ...

ABB Robotics and PSYONIC collaborate to revolutionize grasping and dexterity, a core capability for Autonomous Versatile Robotics™ ABB GoFa™ helps test PSYONIC’s Ability Hand for robotics, combining ...

Building on the country’s electric vehicle industry, Chinese companies are making robot parts at a scale and price point others can’t match. China’s lead in humanoid robots was evident at last month’s ...

It’s the Hero he deserves. For most of his life, Praveen Gowtham avoided prosthetics. The Bronx physicist, who lost part of his arm at 1 week old due to a birth defect, found artificial limbs ...

Be not afraid, human. A new robot developed at Duke University isn’t intended to strike fear into the hearts of anyone who beholds it, but more closely resembles one of those terrifying biblically ...

If you could buy a humanoid robot for less than a smartphone, would you? Would you buy several robots to handle cooking, cleaning, babysitting, and even your job? This is the pitch being made by Zhou ...

Thanks to new technologies like artificial intelligence, scientists are increasingly freed from the constraints of the laboratory. It raises questions about how much humans should outsource to robots.

A $2,500 pair of humanoid robot legs built from 3D-printed parts and off-the-shelf components is not going to win marathons just yet. But such relatively inexpensive hardware could enable researchers ...