
Robotics news, features and articles - Live Science
Nov 18, 2025 · Discover how robots can help push the realms of science and engineering with the latest robotics news, features and articles.
Robotics | MIT News | Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Dec 19, 2025 · Vine-inspired robotic gripper gently lifts heavy and fragile objects The new design could be adapted to assist the elderly, sort warehouse products, or unload heavy cargo.
Robot, know thyself: New vision-based system teaches ... - MIT News
Jul 24, 2025 · A 3D-printed robotic arm holds a pencil as it trains using random movements and a single camera — part of a new control system called Neural Jacobian Fields (NJF). Rather than relying on …
Watch this terrifying robotic torso spring into life - Live Science
Nov 1, 2024 · Startup Clone Robotics has created an ultra-creepy humanoid torso with artificial muscles that are activated through a battery-powered hydraulic system and covered in ghostly-white "skin."
Robots: Facts about these programmable and autonomous machines
Apr 30, 2025 · Robots include a wide variety of machines, such as the giant arms used to make cars, automatic vacuum cleaners, humanoid machines that look like people and do backflips, and robotic …
MIT builds swarms of tiny robotic insect drones that can fly 100 times ...
Feb 10, 2025 · Scientists have built a new type of robotic insect that can fly 100 times longer than previous generations.
17 weird, wonderful and terrifying robots we saw at CES 2025 — from a ...
Jan 10, 2025 · From a Star Wars-style droid for your home to a Pixar-inspired lamp bot, these are the most interesting and innovative robots we've seen so far at CES.
A new model offers robots precise pick-and-place solutions
Aug 9, 2024 · Pick-and-place machines are a type of automated equipment used to place objects into structured, organized locations. These machines are used for a variety of applications — from …
Robotic hand can identify objects with just one grasp
Apr 3, 2023 · MIT-developed soft-rigid robotic fingers incorporate powerful sensors along their entire length, enabling them to produce a robotic hand that could accurately identify objects after only one …
New system enables robots to solve manipulation problems in seconds
Jun 5, 2025 · A new system enables a robot to “think ahead” and consider thousands of potential motion plans simultaneously, allowing the robot to solve a multistep problem in a few seconds.