Miniaturization offers robotics designers new levels of power efficiency, nimbleness, and precision for a range of applications.

“The biggest challenge really was to make it smart,” remarked Huanyu “Larry” Cheng, James L. Henderson, Jr. Memorial Associate Professor of Engineering Science and Mechanics at Penn State, during ...

"Humanoid robotics is advancing rapidly, and success hinges on fast data, stable power and precise mechanical tolerances," said Jorge Jimenez, mechanical engineer and senior marketing program ...

What if the same forces that move a soft robot could also power it? A research shows magnetic fields can make robots smart, ...

A former Tesla engineer left the electric automaker's humanoid robotics team to co-found a startup operating in Palo Alto, California, and Shenzhen, China. The engineer, Shuo Yang, was part of the ...

One of the original stereotypes about robots is that their movements are stiff and abrupt, something that endures in the “robot dance” that first became popular in the 1980s. Robots have since evolved ...

The 1,500 g automation arm by Oleksandr Stepanenko keeps moves under a micron, boosting photonics throughput while fitting on ...

When we think about robots, we think about complex electronic devices. We're conditioned to think about robots as sophisticated machines controlled by intricate programming and powered by advanced ...