MIT news writes that teaching a robot to play Jenga with traditional machine learning schemes require 10s of thousands of tested attempts — not too…

The robot hand, developed by researchers at the University of Cambridge, was made by 3D-printing soft and rigid materials together to replicate of all the…

CSAIL system could help athletes, dancers, and others better analyze how they move New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady has often credited his success to…

MIT-developed process could offer nontoxic alternative to environmentally harmful chemicals.   Fabrics that resist water are essential for everything from rainwear to military tents, but…

Improved design may be used for exploring disaster zones and other dangerous or inaccessible environments. MIT’s Cheetah 3 robot can now leap and gallop across…

To get drones to fly around complicated obstacles in the dark by themselves, University of Cincinnati researchers are turning to the pros. Bats have evolved…

Humans can be great acrobats, but what about Disney robots? Disney Research has one such human-scale robot — called Stickman, because it’s literally a robotic stick —…

A team of researchers at University of Central Florida has developed a fabric that changes color. The material uses thin metal micro-wires embedded with an…

Walls are what they are — big, dull dividers. With a few applications of conductive paint and some electronics, however, walls can become smart infrastructure…

It can be difficult to keep track of the progress being made in robotics, but one useful (if informal) marker is how good machines are…