Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We ...

While 2026 has been an objectively terrible year for humans thus far, it’s turning out—for better or worse—to be a banner year for robots. (Robots that are not Tesla’s Optimus thingamajig, anyway.) ...

Fast forward nine years, and the consortium Overvelde and Kluin have assembled, in the hope of making the soft artificial ...

A wave of recent research has brought robotic touch sensitivity closer to human fingertips than ever before, driven by ...

Advancements in soft robotics highlight dielectric elastomer and fluid actuators, yet lowering operating voltage remains a key challenge for real-world use.

Valkyrie, a humanoid robot that was previously trained to assist NASA with Mars mission preparations, will soon return to the ...

The machines are built from autonomous modules that can be snapped together in a variety of forms ...

The next step is to build a sleeker model that’s easier to manipulate, scientist say.

Artificial intelligence was of course going to be a focus of the annual conference, but experts guide the conversations to real use cases and lessons.

Northwestern University engineers have developed the first modular robots with athletic intelligence. They can be combined ...

Robot vision could soon get a boost thanks to the development of a bioinspired eye that can automatically adjust its pupil ...