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Nov 5, 2025 · Robotic probe quickly measures key properties of new materials Developed to analyze new semiconductors, the system could streamline the development of more powerful solar panels.
Robots: Facts about these programmable and autonomous machines
Apr 30, 2025 · Robots include a wide variety of machines, such as the giant arms used to make cars, automatic vacuum cleaners, humanoid machines that look like people and do backflips, and robotic …
Robotics news, features and articles - Live Science
Nov 18, 2025 · Discover how robots can help push the realms of science and engineering with the latest robotics news, features and articles.
A new model offers robots precise pick-and-place solutions
Aug 9, 2024 · Pick-and-place machines are a type of automated equipment used to place objects into structured, organized locations. These machines are used for a variety of applications — from …
Eldercare robot helps people sit and stand, and catches them if they ...
May 13, 2025 · MIT engineers built E-BAR, a mobile robot designed to physically support the elderly and prevent them from falling as they move around their homes. E-BAR acts as a set of robotic …
This fast and agile robotic insect could someday aid in mechanical ...
Jan 15, 2025 · New insect-scale microrobots can fly more than 100 times longer than previous versions. The new bots, also significantly faster and more agile, could someday be used to pollinate fruits and …
A prosthesis driven by the nervous system helps people with …
Jul 1, 2024 · Instead, they rely on robotic controllers built into the prosthetic limb. These limbs also include sensors that can detect and adjust to slopes and obstacles. To try to help people achieve a …
Robotic hand can identify objects with just one grasp
Apr 3, 2023 · MIT-developed soft-rigid robotic fingers incorporate powerful sensors along their entire length, enabling them to produce a robotic hand that could accurately identify objects after only one …
Finger-shaped sensor enables more dexterous robots
Oct 4, 2023 · MIT researchers developed a touch sensor for a robotic hand that is long and curved, like a human finger, and provides sensing along its entire length. This could enable a robot to grasp large …
Watch this terrifying robotic torso spring into life
Nov 1, 2024 · Startup Clone Robotics has created an ultra-creepy humanoid torso with artificial muscles that are activated through a battery-powered hydraulic system and covered in ghostly-white "skin."