There are many chess robots, most of which require the human player to move the opposing pieces themselves, or have a built-in mechanism that can slide the opposing pieces around to their new ...

Matt Denton]’s SpoolBot is a surprisingly agile remote-controlled robot that doesn’t just repurpose filament spool leftovers.

Abstract: This paper presents a theoretical model for the shape reconstruction of soft robots under a tip force, a tip moment, and a distributed load along the body, akin to blood flow forces acting ...

Abstract: Deploying advanced deep learning models on resource-constrained, battery-powered robots presents significant system-level challenges in balancing performance, power efficiency, and ...

HoloRadar uses radio waves to see around corners, allowing it to detect people at T-shaped intersections like the one pictured here. Penn Engineers have developed a system that lets robots see around ...

The Marines have tapped one of the companies competing to build the Air Force’s drone wingman to help develop its own Corps-specific Collaborative Combat Aircraft program, a key element of its new ...

Penn Engineers have developed a system that lets robots see around corners using radio waves processed by AI, a capability that could improve the safety and performance of driverless cars as well as ...

For decades, humanoid robots have lived behind safety cages in factories or deep inside research labs. Fauna Robotics, a New York-based robotics startup, says that era is ending. The company has ...

Like something from a galaxy far, far away, robots are getting closer to their big takeover.

FORT BENNING, Ga. — An instructor moved a tiny drone upside down then rapidly back and forth by hand as Army Sgt. 1st Class William Benz peered through his goggles to see what the drone could see. “It ...

It's become a common scene on UNC Charlotte's campus: students on their way to class or to their dorms, walking in step with little six-wheeled robots rolling about Charlotte's red brick paths. "I ...

NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks with Ainsley Harris, senior writer at Fast Company, about the accelerated rollout of delivery robots and how they're being received in communities across the country. A couple ...