Robots make everything look easy, but there's actually a lot of work going on under the hood to make even simple tasks happen. But through impeccable design, practice, and some good programming ...

2025 Humanoid Robot Application Scenario White Paper: Industry Leading the Way to New Productive Forces, with 2030 Marking a ...

Build your own Palm robot -- it's easy Researchers at Carnegie Mellon's Robotics Institute offer a do-it-yourself kit and online instructions -- in 15 steps, you've got a Palm Pilot robot.

Scientists at Cornell University create a simple robot that can build a replica of itself in 2.5 minutes. Photos: How to clone a robot ...

Make way for robots Changing our environment in small, simple ways will help robots collaborate more effectively (and safely) with humans.

PyRobot could simplify the way researchers program their machines, and could even make it easier for non-robotics types to jump into the field.

A team from NCCR robotics in Switzerland has devised squishy, air-powered actuators that can be combined to make remarkably flexible, squishy robots. Most autonomous machines rely on servomotors ...

Inspired by Swarming Termites, Robots Can Build Without Supervision The robots can stack blocks to make simple structures without a central plan.

Simple robot roams around using just a ball motor It's the only moving part in SIMbot besides the robot itself.

Robots need things like motors, actuators, body segments, legs, and wheels. Researchers from the Georgia Institute of Technology have created a larger robot using smaller robots known as "smarticles." ...

Robots are good at tasks that are precisely the same each time, but with clothing, the flimsiness adds a layer of complexity robots can’t yet handle. The solution Zornow then came up with is almost ...