Intuitive Surgical, an American biotechnology company, introduced DaVinci surgical robots in the late 1990s, and they became ...

From ketchup to toilet stains, SCCRUB cleared 99% of grime in lab tests. The soft robot might just be your next cleaning ...

Robot self-awareness is one step closer today after engineers at Columbia University built a robotic arm that can imagine itself. ... just the internal self-model alone, ...

The robot arm can do full 360 rotations at every joint that supports it without slip rings. The copper shafts were also interesting. It’s a sort of history lesson on the prices of metal and ...

The charming robot at the heart of Disney’s Big Hero 6, Baymax, isn’t exactly realistic, but its puffy bod is an (admittedly aspirational) example of the growing field of soft robotics.And now ...

Researchers from Columbia Engineering have gone and done it, giving a robot arm some form of self-awareness – at least in a rudimentary sense, which allows it to better adapt to changing conditions.

The hand, developed at Switzerland’s EPFL, can detach from an arm, crawl around on its own, grab small objects, and bring them back before reattaching itself.