A team led by the University of Oxford has developed a new class of soft robots that operate without electronics, motors, or ...

Pop culture has often depicted robots as cold, metallic, and menacing, built for domination, not compassion. But at Georgia ...

VANCOUVER, Wash. – Seeing robots made with soft, flexible parts in action appears to lower people’s anxiety about working with them or even being replaced by them. A Washington State University study ...

Here’s the catch that’s dividing opinions: NEO has a brain that isn’t all its own. This robot relies on both AI and human control. When NEO encounters an unfamiliar situation, 1X has human operators ...

Engineers at MIT have devised an ingenious new way to produce artificial muscles for soft robots that can flex in more than one direction, similar to the complex muscles in the human body. The team ...

Enter NEO, a humanoid robot created by 1X, an artificial intelligence and robotics company based in Palo Alto, California.

Inspired by invertebrate organisms like jellyfish and earthworm, the research of soft robotics as alternatives to traditional rigid robots has made tremendous progress in recent years. Scientists are ...

TL;DR: The Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas featured Aria, a human-sized AI robot by Realbotix, designed for companionship and intimacy. Initially linked to sex dolls, Aria is now rebranded as ...

A new development from the Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST) in South Korea could advance the field of soft robotics. The team successfully created a novel artificial muscle ...

A tiny, soft, flexible robot that can crawl through earthquake rubble to find trapped victims or travel inside the human body to deliver medicine may seem like science fiction, but an international ...

Fossils of a marine animal that lived 500 million years ago, combined with computer simulations, informed the design of a new soft robot. Soft robotics is the study of creating robots from soft ...