A new generation of robots is beginning to take shape, one that moves, senses, and adapts more like living creatures.

Researchers at a Chinese university have built a soft, human-inspired robot that can physically grow and shrink on command, mimicking the way human bones elongate during development. The robot, called ...

From Boston Dynamics' Electric Atlas to Unitree Robotics' G1, humanoid robots are becoming more human-like in many ways – and sometimes even more capable – but they are often made of pretty heavy ...

Chinese authorities and industrialists have long hoped to unseat the United States as the world's premier tech giant, but they've historically struggled to make inroads against Silicon Valley ...

Kaushik Jayaram envisions a day when swarms of tiny robots, some weighing no more than a paperclip, will crawl through airplanes or into buildings after an earthquake—searching for survivors or ...

A tiny robot no bigger than a baseball has quietly rewritten the rules of moon exploration. In January 2024, Japan's space agency JAXA successfully deployed a transforming rover named SORA-Q onto the ...

We wanted a sensor that could be added to off‑the‑shelf robots without modifying their internal structure," explains Professor Lu. "Our fiber is ...