Robots have spent decades promising to transform our lives, now that transformation is beginning. From humanoids that can ...

Cynthia Sung, head of the Sung Robotics Lab within Penn’s GRASP Lab, is especially interested in getting high school students into engineering. Self-folding origami robots, anyone? Cynthia Sung.

Czech playwright Karel Capek coined the word “robot” in his seminal 1920 work, “Rossum’s Universal Robots.” In this dark piece of sci-fi, the term described flesh-and-blood laborers made from organic ...

SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Trilobio, developer of whole lab automation solutions for advancing biology research, today introduced the first version of its comprehensive robotics, lab equipment ...

The Robotics, Automation, and Manufacturing research cluster at Miami University’s College of Engineering and Computing (CEC) explores advanced technologies that integrate mechanical systems, ...

Although many roboticists today turn to nature to inspire their designs, even bioinspired robots are usually fabricated from non-biological materials like metal, plastic and composites. But a new ...

Although nature does not necessarily provide the optimal form, it still outperforms many artificial systems and offers valuable insights for designing functional machines based on elegant principles,” ...

Industrial robot adoption has reached a point of no return. Automated machinery has become an industry standard and will only become increasingly common as time goes on. As this trend continues, ...

It was only a matter of time before we started to think about how robots can design – other robots. In fact, I’ve been having these conversations with people ever since the arrival of ChatGPT, as we ...