New BBC sitcom Ann Droid imagines a near future in which robots provide care and companionship to older people at home.

NASA is planning to send three small rovers to the Moon with a single instruction: Work out among yourselves how to explore a ...

Focusing on papers related to learning from demonstration, the team searched IEEE Xplore for relevant 2024 papers, screened ...

We found that when people interacted with an expressive robot that violated interaction norms, their oxytocin levels ...

Action from the 11 vs 11 humanoid match at RoboCup 2026. Photo credit: RoboCup Federation. RoboCup 2026 saw history made, as ...

Robots clean rivers and sort waste, monitor ecosystems, and inspect renewable-energy infrastructure. But even the greenest robot has an environmental footprint.

While previous approaches have used sound waves to levitate passive objects mid-air, the EPFL team designed devices that convert sound into their own propulsive force. Their innovation lies in the ...

Claire chatted to Rich Walker from Shadow Robot Company about their advanced robotic hands for research and industry. Rich Walker has been at Shadow Robot since long before it was a company, working ...

This weekend saw the finale of the league competitions at RoboCup 2026 in Incheon, South Korea, with the winners in the small, middle, and large humanoid divisions decided. Congratulations to the ...

Claire chatted to Edward Mehr from Machina Labs about their RoboCraftsman that shapes complex metal parts for the aerospace, defence, and automotive industries. Edward Mehr is an entrepreneur and ...

If the goal of a robot is to perform a function, then minimizing the possibility of failure is a top priority when it comes to robotic design. But this minimization is at odds with the robotic raison ...

Deborah Lupton / Pop Chips / Licenced by CC-BY 4.0. Henrik I Christensen, Professor of Computer Science & Engineering at University of California San Diego, has recently released a global robotics ...