The human hand is remarkably good at handling objects, from picking up a tiny needle to twisting a bottle cap. Engineers have ...

Robots are super interesting, but you probably shouldn’t start learning about them with a full-sized industrial SCARA arm or anything. Better to learn with something smaller and simpler to understand.

In a video, the 4-foot, 80-pound robot is shown twirling a baton, flipping toast in a frying pan, and cracking walnuts with its hands. It’s 2024 — weren’t we all supposed to have personal robots by ...

From searching disaster zones and responding to chemical spills to monitoring fragile ecosystems, future robot swarms may have to act in places where direct human control is difficult or dangerous. To ...

If you’re designing a robot for a specific purpose, you’re probably ordering fresh parts and going with a clean sheet design. If you’re just building for fun though, you can just go with whatever ...