Robots are super interesting, but you probably shouldn’t start learning about them with a full-sized industrial SCARA arm or anything. Better to learn with something smaller and simpler to understand.

A simple spring-powered robot can pinch, twist, hook and grasp with just two air inputs, outperforming the human hand in some ...

If you’re designing a robot for a specific purpose, you’re probably ordering fresh parts and going with a clean sheet design. If you’re just building for fun though, you can just go with whatever ...

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An illustration of how the collective, decentralized behavior of ants has inspired experiments with cooperative robots that can complete tasks without central control. Harvard researchers built a ...

In what might be one of the most underappreciated technological breakthroughs of our time, Alphabet's Google DeepMind has accomplished something deceptively difficult -- teaching a robot to tie ...

Underwater robots built to monitor a creek can’t simply scale up to patrol a ...

Every single person on the planet will get a personal robot,” the founder and CEO of Agile Robots told me in Munich last week ...