"In their early days robots were more limited by their controller technology than by their physical capabilities," explains Roger Christian, vice president marketing and international groups with ...

PITTSBURGH -- Imagine a tiny snake robot crawling through your body, helping a surgeon identify diseases and perform operations. It's not science fiction. Scientists and doctors are using the creeping ...

Munich-based Agile Robots has unveiled its first-ever humanoid robot dubbed Agile ONE. Announced on November 19, it is built to handle the complexity of the factory floor. The five-fingered humanoid ...

Learning to use tools played a crucial role in the evolution of human intelligence. It may yet prove vital to the emergence of smarter, more capable robots, too. New research shows that robots can ...

Most brain surgery requires doctors to remove part of the skull to access hard-to-reach areas or tumours. It’s invasive, risky, and it takes a long time for the patient to recover. We have developed ...

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 ...

November 2025 started with the Robotics Startup Radar and continued with news from important players in the robotics industry ...

Robots are increasingly being used in place of humans to explore hazardous and difficult-to-access environments, but they aren't yet able to interact with their environments as well as humans. If ...

The ability to create tools from everyday objects requires creativity, abstract thinking, and problem-solving. As such, that complex ability has been used emblematically to differentiate so-called ...

While quadruped robots may surpass their wheeled counterparts at traversing rough terrain, they still aren't able to maintain their balance when moving along narrow ridges. That could change, though, ...

A robot carrying an explosive device was used to kill one of the shooters in Thursday night’s horrific violence in Dallas, Texas, in what many law enforcement and other experts are calling the first ...