Team NimbRo’s robot in action during the RoboCup@Home competition at RoboCup 2026. Raphael leads the team. Raphael ...

Muscle isn’t the only place where nature has solved the problem of coordinating many tiny motors. Microscopic flagella are ...

Claire chatted to Zlatka Stoeva from DZP Technologies about flexible, stretchable and soft printed electronics for dexterous ...

Claire chatted to Jan Petrš from École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) and Déploya Robotics about novel robot ...

More than five million industrial robots are now operating in factories worldwide, according to the International Federation of Robotics’ newly released World Robotics 2026 report. Factories installed ...

Claire chatted to Kushant Patel from Brookhaven National Laboratory about robots that work in scientific facilities, such as particle accelerators. Kushant Patel builds software that helps robots and ...

MIT engineers developed a soft robot that can flap through water in response to flashes of light. Photo credit: Melanie Gonick, MIT. Swimming can take a lot of muscle. But as MIT engineers have found, ...

Imagine you are driving toward an intersection. A truck parked on the corner blocks your view of a car speeding toward the intersection from the right. You can’t see it, but the car next to you can.

At the recent World Humanoid Robot Games 2026 in Beijing, robots sprinted, boxed, played football and tackled tasks inspired by factories, restaurants and emergency situations. The robot Tiangong ...

Claire chatted to Rika Antonova from the University of Cambridge about using artificial intelligence to develop complimentary robot hardware and algorithms. Rika Antonova is an Associate Professor at ...

Nominations are solicited for the 2027 ACM SIGAI Autonomous Agents Research Award. This award is made for excellence in research in the area of autonomous agents. It is intended to recognize ...