The latest viral clip of a faceless android twitching under its own power has pushed humanoid robotics into a new, unsettling ...

Researchers are continuing to make progress on developing a new synthetic material that behaves like biological muscle, an ...

Warehouse work is intense, repetitive and physically demanding. Kinisi Robotics, a U.S.-based startup, wants to change that. Its newest innovation, the Kinisi 01, also known as KR1, is a powerful ...

It’s a bizarre sight: With a short burst of light, a sponge-shaped robot scoots across a tiled surface. Flipped on its back, it repeatedly twitches as if doing sit-ups. By tinkering with the light’s ...

Robocath announced today that it launched a first-in-human clinical study evaluating its new robotic system in coronary artery disease.

In a remarkable fusion of biology and technology, researchers from the University of Tokyo and Waseda University have developed a groundbreaking biohybrid robotic hand that utilizes lab-grown human ...

Robotics in orthopedics is having a moment, but Brian Nwannunu, MD, orthopedic surgeon at Dallas-based Texas Joint Institute, says the biggest misconception is still the simplest one: people assume it ...

Researchers from Harvard University have built a miniature robotic stingray that straddles the line between organic and synthetic. As a bio-hybrid, the soft robot is fueled by light-activated heart ...

As always with these kind of anthropomorphic robots: Why? The human form is the result of evolution, a messy, unguided, inefficient process. There's no reason to replicate such a configuration. Even ...

Fluid robot motion is the result of design choices among five options including pneumatics and strain wave gears.

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 ...

What we do when we need large amount of muscles (meat)? Farm animals. What will large corporations do when they need human muscles at large scale? Grow it in a lab. Yeah, right. What we do when we ...