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.) ...

Credit: Sam Kriegman/Northwestern University/Cover Images Engineers in the United States have created AI-powered robots that can evolve and reconfigure themselves, as well as recover from damage. The ...

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

AI and robotics companies need data on movements in the physical world. Some are paying gig workers to record themselves ...

Abstract: Natural fiber-based artificial muscles represent a class of green and intelligent actuating materials with significant potential for applications in soft robotics and smart textiles. This ...

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

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

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

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

Artificial intelligence was of course going to be a focus of the annual conference, but experts guide the conversations to ...