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 handlebars that follows a person from ...

A robotic hand can pick up 24 different objects with human-like movements that emerge spontaneously, thanks to compliant materials and structures rather than programming.

Robots are machines that can automatically perform both simple and complex actions. They are often programmed by a computer, ...

T he main assumption about humanoid robotics that the industry is maknig right now is that the most realistic near-term ...

What kinds of movement might be possible if, for example, a crutch could extend and retract? That’s not a hypothetical.

“Sea stars, for example, coordinate hundreds of tube feet using local feedback and body dynamics, not a centralized brain,” said co-author Mannus Schomaker. Relatively speaking, the robot is ...

The robot is more human-like than an Amazon Alexa, but it only vaguely resembles a person, with a face, eyes, nose, mouth and just an upper body with ... to respond to people’s emotions.