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Building a Cheap, Dexterous Robot Hand (opens in a new tab)

Most of the time, assuming nothing’s gone wrong with them, we take our hands so much for granted that it’s easy to forget what remarkable pieces of engineering they are: …read more

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Rubber ducks and screwdrivers put dexterous new soft robotic gripper to the test (opens in a new tab)

Professors at the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M) and the Universidad Pública de Navarra (UPNA) have developed a soft robotic gripper capable not only of picking up and holding objects but also of manipulating and repositioning what it holds between its fingers without l…

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Figure Tested Its New Robot in 30 Homes. Did It Work? (opens in a new tab)

Figure has finally taken its humanoid robot out of the lab and tested it across 30 unfamiliar homes. The robot picked up toys, folded towels, and made beds — successfully completing 56% of its attempts. So is 56% impressive… or a failure? In this video, we break down what Figure…

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MIT robot swims through water via living muscle cells (opens in a new tab)

An MIT robot powered by a single layer of living muscle cells swam through a watery maze, following a light held in a researcher’s hand. It is slow, tiny and nowhere near ready for the open ocean, but its thin design could point toward softer, cheaper swimming machines. Continue…

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Video Friday: Albatross Falls, Spins, Self-Rights, and Sails Away (opens in a new tab)

Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months. Please send us your events for inclusion. CoRL 2026: 9–12 November 2026, AUS…

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New robot falls like a maple seed then sails like a boat once it hits water (opens in a new tab)

Remote waters are difficult to monitor. Boats can take a long time to reach them, while aircraft cannot remain there for extended periods. To close that gap, researchers at the Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD) have developed a nature-inspired robotic platform…

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Robots approaching from behind are perceived as moving faster, experiments reveal (opens in a new tab)

A research team from the Vision and Action Laboratory, Visual Perception and Cognition Laboratory and Cognitive Neurotechnology Unit in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Toyohashi University of Technology, led by associate professor Hideki Tamura, has demonst…

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Atlas Robot’s New Hand May Outperform Humanlike Designs (opens in a new tab)

Today, Boston Dynamics is announcing a redesigned hand for its Atlas robot. The previous generation could do some crazy superhuman things with its three fingers, but it was never intended for mass production in the tens or hundreds of thousands. Switching from research hardware…

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