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Dexterous manipulation remains one of the biggest barriers keeping robots from successfully tackling a wide range of everyday tasks. A sense of touch could be the key, but a lack of quality data has held back progress. This is now starting to change as academic labs and startups…
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Humanoid robots are getting faster, smarter, and cheaper — but are they actually ready for the real world? At the World Humanoid Robot Games in Beijing, robots broke records, cleared obstacle courses… and sometimes crashed spectacularly seconds later. That contrast perfectly cap…
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If you think that cockroaches are creepy and useless, we can prove you wrong. Well, at least the “useless” part.
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Few things make the career jump from regional cuisine delicacy to robotics actuator. Yet, in research vaguely reminiscent of RoboCop, scientists have used skeletal muscle from a literal frog leg as an actuator to control a tiny robotic manta ray.
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Nature is undoubtedly the smartest engineer. Scientists have borrowed ideas from armadillos, elephants and birds to build robots capable of doing things that conventional man-made machines struggle with. Now, researchers at New York University's Tandon School of Engineering have…
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You sit down and put your arm in the cradle. You press a button. The machine takes it from there. A near-infrared light sweeps your inner elbow, hunting for a vein. A puff of alcohol hits your skin. An ultrasound probe glides across your arm, mapping how deep the vessel runs and…
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Imagine you are trapped under rubble after an earthquake and you see an electronics-covered cockroach with a spring-loaded needle on its back scuttling toward you. Although the sight might be unnerving, to say the least, this prototype paramedic cyborg, or “Paraborg,” might one…
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Humanoid robots are getting stronger, faster, and more capable — but are they actually ready to work? At World Robot Conference 2026 in Beijing, Unitree, EngineAI, Deep Robotics, Galaxy General and dozens of other companies showed robots fighting, navigating factories, working i…
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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. Humanoids Summit Seoul: 22–23 Sept…
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2,056 robots. 16 countries. 51 events. At the World Humanoid Robot Games, robots ran faster, jumped higher — and broke records humans may never touch.
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