Robotics

Robots are helping humans in a growing number of places - from archaeological sites to disaster zones to sewers.

With a modified joystick, surgeons in one hospital may control a robotic arm at another location to safely operate on a patient.

A new jumping robot that can soar nearly 100 feet into the air might use the ability to explore the moon for NASA.

Japanese company Skeletonics has developed a new exoskeleton that lets you enter the boxing ring as a nine-foot-tall robot.

A new artificial fingertip replicates humans' sense of touch by mimicking the microscopic anatomy of our fingertips.

UK researchers have developed a small, flexible, snake-like "magnetic tentacle robot" to navigate deep into the lungs.

Until robots understand jokes and sarcasm, artificial general intelligence will remain in the realm of science fiction.

The four-legged robots learn how to move through experience — both in the real world and in simulations.

An android child capable of expressing six emotions puts us one step closer to a future in which we share our homes with companion robots.

Most of the cost of delivering goods is tied to moving “the last mile” from a hub to the final destination. A new robotic delivery bot being piloted in three cities may help solve the problem.