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In an office at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, or MIT CSAIL, a soft robotic hand curls its fingers to grasp a small object. The ...

Efforts to train robots to perform certain kinds of surgical procedures without human help have reached a "critical milestone ...

JAXA and PickNik's goal was to demonstrate a complex, multi-armed robotic system capable of performing manipulation tasks in ...

A soft robotic arm, like an octopus tentacle, can grasp, explore, and respond without needing to calculate every move. Flesh and feedback: How to make materials think for themselves ...

Shape memory polymer surfaces with nanotips offer tunable dry adhesion for robotics, electronics, and biomedical devices.

ST PHOTO: AZMI ATHNI In Japan, Unistop is working with Japanese robotics start-up Thinker, which has developed a sensor gripper robotic arm capable of handling soft items.

At Caltech, researchers have turned living jellyfish into low-cost, remotely controlled ocean robots — creating real-life ...

Czech company Roboton has developed a fully electric, autonomous field robot designed for row crop production with minimal ...

These innovators collaborate with people with wide ranges of sensory and physical disabilities to design products that ...