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

To this end, researchers at Georgia Tech have created an artificial skin that gives robots the ability to identify different materials by lightly touching them. The fabric-based skin has both thermal ...

Skin has traditionally been reserved for animals – until now. For the first time, scientists learned to grow humanlike skin on a robotic finger using cells, a new study revealed. Unlike artificial ...

Remember that one movie where a killer robot is disguised as a human using “living tissue” over its “metal endoskeleton”? Lest you interpreted that as a cautionary tale, scientists at the University ...

The Figure 03 humanoid robot will be used on BMW factory floors before it gets to to become a reliable member of households.

Think of a robot, and the image that may come to mind is a big, hulking body building cars or working in factories. They battle each other in the movies. But a growing field called softbotics focuses ...

What if electronic circuits could be created simply by drawing lines with a pencil on paper or leaves—and then immediately applied to soft robots or skin-attached health monitoring devices? Korean ...