From searching disaster zones and responding to chemical spills to monitoring fragile ecosystems, future robot swarms may have to act in places where direct human control is difficult or dangerous. To ...

A commercial robotic leg could potentially benefit both higher- and lower-mobility amputees, University of Michigan roboticists have shown for the first time. The leg provided the largest gains when ...

Researchers have developed a new algorithm that combines two processes for personalizing robotic prosthetic devices to both optimize the movement of the prosthetic limb and - for the first time - also ...

The evolution of robotic surgery has been transformative, reshaping how surgeons perform complex procedures with enhanced precision and control. With the rapid integration of artificial intelligence ...

China's Unitree Robotics has unveiled a new humanoid robot, nicknamed "Superman," that can jump to a height of two meters straight from the ground, beating the human record by about 30 centimeters. In ...

Objects constructed by robots are ubiquitous. If you’ve used a car, household appliance, or smartphone today, you’ve used an ...

Unlike biological systems, which can use muscles, robots that try to imitate them don’t have particularly fast, powerful, ...