(Nanowerk News) MIT researchers have created an interactive design pipeline that streamlines and simplifies the process of crafting a customized robotic hand with tactile sensors. Typically, a ...

Diligent Robotics' Moxi helps nurses and pharmacy staff with routine tasks, such as delivering medications and lab samples.

Agility Robotics’ Digit, one of the most widely deployed robots in manufacturing, takes a break from factory floors for some ...

A field called swarm robotics is taking inspiration from ants, bees and even slime molds.

Mobile manipulation aids enable people with physical disabilities to manipulate their environment. However, controlling a robotic manipulator with many degrees of freedom is challenging, especially ...

The next generation of robotic hands will have to be extremely dexterous, but also simple to build. The three-fingered version designed by engineer Matei Ciocarlie can adapt to a wide array of objects ...

While plenty of people might worry about losing their jobs to technology, there's one job no one will complain about handing off to robots: bomb disposal. These machines are good in dangerous ...

Prof. Kevin Lynch's course is critical to the MSR experience and has led to a number of exciting innovations. Humans are quite adept at manipulating the world. We can push a sofa on the floor, pivot a ...