Abstract: Aerial robotic arms aim to enable inspection and interaction in otherwise hard-to-reach areas from the air. However, many aerial manipulators feature bulky or heavy robot manipulators ...

Inspired by origami, Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) robotics engineering researchers are developing a lightweight, flexible robotic arm that will enable a wheelchair user to safely grasp, lift, ...

A laboratory in Pittsburgh’s Bakery Square is poised to make the next breakthrough in wheelchairs, a mostly stagnant industry with huge quality of life implications for millions of disabled Americans.

1 Human Robotics Laboratory, Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Ikoma, Japan 2 Department of Mechanical Engineering, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan In response to the growing need for ...

Inspired by animal vision, the eye could become part of soft robots without any electronic components. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it ...

Affordable, versatile, incredibly strong and locally available, concrete is the world’s most used manmade material. But it also has a huge carbon footprint, accounting for around 8% of global ...

On October 15, Honor announced its next flagship, the Magic 8 series, at a launch event in China. Alongside the new Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5-powered devices, the company also teased a concept phone ...

A US Department of Energy (DOE) employee has lost his security clearance after uploading *checks notes* 187,000 pornographic images to the DOE network (first reported by 404 Media). The individual's ...

In context: Elon Musk has long hyped Tesla's Optimus robots as a potentially transformative technology capable of eclipsing its electric vehicle business and driving the company toward a multitrillion ...

Researchers at Rice University have developed a soft robotic arm capable of performing complex tasks such as navigating around an obstacle or hitting a ball, guided and powered remotely by laser beams ...