Our muscles are nature's actuators. The sinewy tissue is what generates the forces that make our bodies move. In recent years, engineers have used real muscle tissue to actuate "biohybrid robots" made ...

But MIT’s new muscle-tendon system changes that equation by bridging muscle to skeleton more efficiently. And the numbers ...

Fast forward to November 2025, and the team has far exceeded that humble objective. Not only did they successfully design and ...

Cobots need grippers on their arms to grab and move things. Grippers come in different types, like air-powered, electric, vacuum and magnetic ones. Each type has its own strengths and weaknesses, and ...

Marta Bernardino and Sebastião Mendonça are developing an automaton capable of reforesting areas ravaged by wildfires.

By using one physical principle—magnetism—to drive both movement and power, the team created a robot that is more efficient, ...

We’ve sifted through the Black Friday marketing hype to find the best bargains on cordless vacuums, robot vacs, and more.

In recent years, a growing number of Taiwanese auto–parts suppliers have accelerated their push into the robotics and server ...

At its heart, robotics is about building machines that can do things for us. Think of it as giving a machine a set of ...

The digital playbook is lifting the country’s manufacturing complexity, and there are gaps yet to be filled. Traditional ...

Anatomically, the human eye is like a sophisticated tentacle that reaches out from the brain, with the retina acting as the tentacle’s tip and touching everything the person sees. Evolution worked a ...

I tested six highly rated robot mops on the market. In the end, only two proved effective at mopping up messes.