The field of soft robotics creates robots made of materials such as elastic, silicone rubber, or gels for the purpose of working in conjunction with people. Extremely maneuverable and often lacking ...

When interacting with highly realistic humanoid robots, the simple presence of eyes strongly shapes how humans perceive the machine’s mental abilities. A recent study published in Consciousness and ...

Fabrication of nanoscale light-sensitive materials, known as quantum dots, created a device that reacts to light faster than the human eye. It could revolutionize autonomous vehicles. WASHINGTON, July ...

Humanoid robots are no longer hiding in research labs somewhere. These days, they are stepping into public spaces, and they are starting to look alarmingly human. A Shanghai startup has now taken that ...

Robots are increasingly becoming a part of our lives – from warehouse automation to robotic vacuum cleaners. And just like humans, robots need to know where they are to reliably navigate from A to B.

For decades, engineers have sculpted robots much like our own physical form, creating machines with faces, limbs, and ...

AI is making them better — but they're not going to be doing your chores anytime soon.

You’re driving in a winter storm at midnight. Icy rain smashes your windshield, immediately turning it into a sheet of frost. Your eyes dart across the highway, seeking any movement that could be ...

BEIJING, 22 January (BelTA - China Daily) - A team of Chinese researchers has developed an autonomous robotic system capable of performing delicate eye injections within the confined space of the ...