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For a couple of years now, as AI’s uncanny capabilities have exploded, people on both sides of the debate (proponents versus detractors) have been waiting for humanoid robot dexterity to evolve, in ...

Members can download this article in PDF format. As robotics matures from simple process automation to more advanced AI-driven systems, engineers are faced with making critical design choices for a ...

While exploring how best to design robots that use tails to reorient their bodies in midair, a team of researchers at the University of Michigan and University of California San Diego found that ...

Researchers are blurring the lines between robotics and materials, with a proof-of-concept material-like collective of robots with behaviors inspired by biology. Researchers at UC Santa Barbara and TU ...

In the fiercely competitive global robotics industry, design has evolved beyond simple biomimicry. It now deeply integrates ...

How the makers of a new Netflix science fiction movie enhanced the look of the cute, round-headed bot at its center. By Robert Ito Kid Cosmo’s head is enormous, as robot heads go. The primary nonhuman ...