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Imagine running on a cement footpath, and then suddenly through dry sand. Just to keep upright, you would have to slow down and change the way you run. In the same way, a walking robot would have to ...

A robot can now travel through the human body to cure diseases. Scientists have created a Transformers-style robot inspired by the Japanese paper-folding art of origami. The shape-shifting device is ...

Rodney Brooks knows a fair bit about robots. Besides being a pioneer of academic robotics research, he has founded companies that have given the world the robot vacuum cleaner, the bomb disposal bot, ...

A new two-layer language-model algorithm is helping robots break down tasks, refine actions on the fly, and execute movements ...

Scientists pushing the frontiers of soft robotics continue to find inspiration in the animal kingdom, with the latest examples that move like inchworms and earthworms deploying some novel sensor ...

A robot baby being built as part of a neuroscience research program in Japan has just gotten a torso, including arms that flop around like an infant’s sans swaddle. Affeto, the robo-baby, is creepy in ...

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Researchers have created a robot that is able to learn a model of its entire body from scratch, without any human assistance. In a new study, the researchers demonstrate how their robot created a ...