Tech companies are collectively spending billions to turn the age old sci-fi trope of humanoid, general-purpose robots into ...

The US Army has awarded a $1.7 million contract to develop an advanced robotic mannequin system for testing protective gear against chemical warfare agents. The Porton Man Robotic Test System, modeled ...

It’s been quite a year for humanoid robots, with all manner of increasingly advanced designs coming to our attention. The ...

Two autonomous robots combine walking, flying, and rolling in rescue missions that would be too risky for humans.

Computer-aided design (CAD) systems are tried-and-true tools used to design many of the physical objects we use each day. But CAD software requires extensive expertise to master, and many tools ...

A man with cerebral palsy who uses a mobility scooter to travel experienced a blood-boiling episode when he kept getting cut off — by a robot. In a video that’s gone viral on social media, Mark Chaney ...

Researchers have developed a new robotic framework powered by artificial intelligence -- called RHyME (Retrieval for Hybrid Imitation under Mismatched Execution) -- that allows robots to learn tasks ...

Built to measure the movement, location or displacement of an object along a linear or rotational path, position sensing in humanoid robots is needed to detect movement and convert it into signals ...

Personal robot helps man shave, scratch. Aug. 1, 2011— -- It's been 10 years since Henry Evans has been able to perform some of the simplest of tasks, like scratching his face, shaving, putting ...

A West Hollywood man with cerebral palsy is raising accessibility concerns after a collision with a food delivery robot — a moment he captured in a viral video that has drawn more than 20 million ...