Think of actuators as the robot’s muscles —the technology that enables humanoids to move. Actuators come in three types: ...

Sergey Levine is an assistant professor at UC Berkeley whose research is focused on the thing our parents used to make such a fuss over, whenever we made stupid mistakes or should have known to avoid ...

Robots excel at many things, but having a good sense of touch is not among them. Whether dropping items or pinching them too tightly, which crushes the object, many robots struggle with these basic ...

Amazon is getting closer to deploying the closest thing to a human in its fulfillment centers as it unveiled a robot that can “feel.” Its latest robotics breakthrough, though, isn’t part of a plot to ...

A new study has found that a robot’s feedback during a collaborative task can influence the feeling of closeness between the ...

Decades ago, Shizuo Ishiguro engineered a machine to predict storm surges in the ocean. His son, novelist and Nobel laureate Kazuo Ishiguro, says his father conducted his business not near the ocean, ...

Taylor worked with AP from 2018 to 2025, most recently as Google Editor. Amazon unveiled Vulcan, a warehouse robot with 'a sense of touch,' at an event in Germany. Vulcan adds/removes items from pods ...

Researchers from the Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (IIT) in Genoa (Italy) and Brown University in Providence (USA) have discovered that people sense the hand of a humanoid robot as part of their ...

Robots just got a feel for the job—literally. Amazon has deployed Vulcan, its first-ever robot with a sense of touch, at a fulfillment center in Dortmund, Germany. The robot, which was unveiled during ...

New generations of spine robots in the market have significant advantages compared to their predecessors, Suken Shah, MD, said. Dr. Shah, of Wilmington, Del.-based Nemours Children’s Hospital, spoke ...