US robotics startup Kinsi Robotics released a new video last week showcasing its KR-1 robot folding a towel while explaining and demonstrating how it was trained to perform the task autonomously. The ...
A robot trained on videos of surgeries performed a lengthy phase of a gallbladder removal without human help. The robot operated for the first time on a lifelike patient, and during the operation, ...
South Korean robotics giant WIRobotics has unveiled ALLEX, its first general-purpose humanoid robot, at the Robot Innovation Hub (RIH) at the Korea University of Technology. A portmanteau of ...
Breaking away from conventional robots that perform only predefined functions once fabricated, researchers have developed a ...
Engineers have long tried to build artificial muscles that work like the ones in the human body—strong, flexible, fast, and ...
A premapped course, a crew of handlers and a world-beating time: here’s what this Beijing half marathon reveals about how far ...
Engineers at MIT have devised an ingenious new way to produce artificial muscles for soft robots that can flex in more than one direction, similar to the complex muscles in the human body. The team ...
Welcome to this week’s episode of “man-made horrors beyond human comprehension.” A humanoid robot named DeREK had what you might call a “moment” on the floor of a San Francisco robotics lab this week, ...
H2L, a Tokyo-based technology startup, has launched the Capsule Interface. This breakthrough device lets you control robots with your entire body, transmitting not just movement but also physical ...
Rather than replicating it directly, it’s more appropriate to use it as a source of ideas.” Humanoids face the same question.