“What we’re really looking at in this paper is how do we make robot hands cheap enough, and reliable enough, that we can do more research with it and just make it more accessible,” Shaw ...

Yes, robots already play the trumpet, sort chemicals in labs, weld cars. But these bots are just following a script. Shift the pieces along an assembly line and the robot won't be able to build a ...

Robot arms are getting smarter and smarter all the time, and now a team from Georgia Tech has taught them how to make their own tools. These resourceful robots are first taught to match form and ...

The robots you see moving heavy parts around in a factory are made of steel and pneumatic components that make them strong and fast, but not very forgiving.

Making Robots That Can Work With Their Hands For robots to be most useful when working alongside humans, they’ll have to literally lend us a hand when our own two are not enough ...

If you want an easy project to complete in a day or so, or something to introduce kids to the world of robots and electronics, make this light-following robot your weekend project.

For robots to be able to work alongside humans, we'll have to figure out how to make robots that can literally lend us a hand when our own two are not enough.

For all their technological brilliance, from navigating distant planets to performing complex surgery, robots still struggle ...

A robotic hand solving Rubik’s cube has all the makings of hype headlines, but underlying OpenAI’s latest achievement is some subtler, more interesting science.

This Robot Hand Taught Itself How to Grab Stuff Like a Human The system, developed by OpenAI, ends up “inventing” characteristic grasps that we humans already commonly use to handle objects ...