The Columbia University researchers achieved the feat by allowing their robot, EMO, to study itself in a mirror. It learned ...

Sea stars move without a central brain, using coordinated tube feet in a way that’s inspiring new robot designs.

A robot observes its reflection in a mirror, learning its own morphology and kinematics for autonomous self-simulation. The process highlights the intersection of vision-based learning and robotics, ...

Who’s raising our robots? Teaching social norms in the age of humanoid robots.

This spinning-mass principle drives several robots in development. One is a remote-controlled wheel that jumps when the internal mass rotates fast enough to lift it off the ground. Unlike spring-based ...

Science fiction promised us humanoids. Do we even want them?

Robots waste power & depend on control to move. A joint design shifts control into the structure, helping robots walk & grip ...

Robots that move, sense and even coordinate with one another usually bring to mind tangled wires, circuit boards and humming motors. In a new study from the University of Oxford, all of that ...

The symmetrical design and flexible fingers mean that the robot can transport objects on either side of its body. For humans, ...

Over the next decades, robots are expected to make their way into a growing number of households, public spaces, and ...