Fluid robot motion is the result of design choices among five options including pneumatics and strain wave gears.

To reliably complete household chores, assemble products and tackle other manual tasks, robots should be able to adapt their ...

Humans pay enormous attention to lips during conversation, and robots have struggled badly to keep up. A new robot developed ...

Almost half of our attention during face-to-face conversation focuses on lip motion. Yet, robots still struggle to move their ...

Inside the friendly head unit lives a custom chipset running LG's "Physical AI," a multimodal vision-language model. This lets the bot read your face, chat in a soft voice, and se ...

Discover the groundbreaking Soft Robotic Exosuit developed by Harvard—an innovation that is changing the future of wearable ...

Whether they were driven to improve quality of vision for WALL-E or R2D2, Corey Zheng and Shu Jia at Georgia Tech have created a solution for them nonetheless: a photo-responsive hydrogel soft lens, ...

This article was commissioned in conjunction with the Professors’ Programme, part of Prototypes for Humanity, a global initiative that showcases and accelerates academic innovation to solve social and ...

A 301 mg soft robot jumps continuously under constant light without batteries or electronics, using snap-through buckling and self-shadowing to create an autonomous feedback loop. (Nanowerk Spotlight) ...

A research team in South Korea has developed a soft robot named Octoid that can mimic the movement and behavior of an octopus in its natural habitat. The robot's "triple-in-one" system enables it to ...

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Underwater octopuses change their body color and texture in the blink of an eye to blend perfectly into their surroundings when evading predators or capturing prey. They transform their bodies to ...