As one of the most important components in robots, sensors can be categorized into proprioceptive sensors and exteroceptive sensors. Proprioceptive sensors measure internal data such as joint speed, ...

So far it has been able to perform simple tasks like picking up glasses of water and putting ice in them. But the team behind it hopes that just as a child learns more skills, the robot’s abilities ...

(Reuters) -These robots don't break into a jig or jump, but their ability to do single tasks cheaply and efficiently is attracting investor dollars as focus shifts to function from flash. Far from the ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. With its clamp-shaped hands and legs that bend backwards, one of the latest humanoid robots tried to move a can ...

A new Terminator-like skin that self-heals could give rise to killer robots. Scientists at Stanford University have developed synthetic skin made of silicone and polypropylene glycol materials that ...