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Biomimicry involves borrowing ideas from nature to solve engineering problems. This is what one of the research teams at New York University's Tandon School of Engineering specializes in. We recently covered their fish-inspired robot, so exploring water bodies seems to be taken…
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If we want to move physical AI from social media feeds to a sustained commercial level, we must reverse our current approach.
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If you've already designed a soft-bodied robot, it kind of defeats the purpose if you just go and stick a rigid motor inside of it. That's why Swiss scientists have created a motor that takes the form of a thin, flexible fiber.
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We’ve already seen robots that can swim like fish, stick to walls like geckos, and grab objects like elephants. Now, engineers at the University of Washington are building a new type of robot inspired by … the flea.
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The next major challenge in robotic dexterity is making the entire system reliable enough to turn capabilities into useful work.
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How better data and human judgment can help robots move beyond demos toward reliable real-world performance.
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The Robot Report spoke with Alberto Rodriguez, the director of robot behavior for Atlas at Boston Dynamics, about the humanoid's new hand.
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For six years, Danu founder Amy Ma has been working on a better way to sort recyclable waste.
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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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FANUC America plans to show its collaborative automation for packaging, food handling, palletizing, and more in Chicago.
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