Hey robot futurist! We've got one word for you: Actuators. They're the motorized joints that make robots strong, agile, and precise and they're getting better all the time.

But a start-up company called Grabit is using static electricity as a way to allow robots to manipulate the real world. In particular, Nike is using these robots to build shoes.

Here’s our soft robot hand in action: This article was originally published in the May 2015 issue of Popular Science, under the title “Wave Hello To A Soft Robot Hand.” ...

In the automotive manufacturing industry, making robots efficient production partners is a pressing challenge that needs to be addressed. Recently, in the welding workshop of the FAW-Volkswagen ...

To create an intelligent robot, the team first needs to engineer body feedback systems, including adding more sensors in the arms to detect how much the limbs have extended or contracted.

She now has a Ph.D. in electrical engineering and computer science and has been working at Penn for six years. Making robots accessible to high schoolers Part of this work includes developing software ...

For robots to be predictable and adaptive, they need a priority-based architecture and a new legal model, argues a researcher ...

In ‘The Electric State,’ Jolting a Robot to Life How the makers of a new Netflix science fiction movie enhanced the look of the cute, round-headed bot at its center.