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A four-legged robot that can complete a marathon on a single battery charge has been demonstrated by a team from KAIST. The robot, which completed the Sangju Marathon in South Korea in 4 hours and 19 minutes alongside human runners, traveled three times as far per charge than ex…
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For many of us, the last—and only—time we've seen a walking hand was Thing in "The Addams Family" movies or TV series. Now there's another. Engineers from the Soft Robotics Lab at ETH Zurich have adapted an off-the-shelf detached robotic hand so it can crawl across different sur…
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GPU acceleration can speed up compute-intensive robotics workloads, but a fast CUDA kernel alone does not guarantee a fast ROS 2 graph. As messages move between...
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Do robots really need to look like humans? At the World Robot Conference 2026 in Beijing, one thing became clear: the future of robotics may not belong to the perfect humanoid. While some companies are still building two-legged machines, others are putting robots on wheels, four…
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Although it wasn’t apparently designed with this in mind, it seems particularly fortuitous that this walking robotic hand was released in time for Halloween. Designed by researchers from ETH Zurich, …read more
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The autonomous system could speed up testing of high-tech materials for applications such as solar cells, sensors, video displays, and quantum technologies.
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This article is brought to you by VicOne. Robot safety has traditionally asked: Can a machine remain safe when something goes wrong? Physical AI raises a harder question: Can a machine remain safe when an attacker changes what it sees, decides, or does even when nothing appears…
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Why is a humanoid robot learning kung fu if its real job is supposed to be in hotels, factories, and warehouses? AGIBOT’s A3 can dodge strikes, perform high-speed spins, and interact with a human martial artist in real time. But behind the spectacular demo is something much more…
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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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If you think that cockroaches are creepy and useless, we can prove you wrong. Well, at least the “useless” part.
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