There might be a more intuitive way to control robots and drones than waggling joysticks or tapping at a screen. MIT CSAIL researchers have developed a control method, Conduct-A-Bot, that uses muscle ...

A soft armband that lets you steer a robot while you sprint on a treadmill or bob on rough seas sounds like science fiction.

Eight years ago, Ted Adelson's research group at MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) unveiled a new sensor technology, called GelSight, that uses physical contact ...

Members can download this article in PDF format. The rapid rate of technological advances across all segments of technology has created a plethora of new platforms. One emerging area is sensor fusion.

Robots do not look human just yet, but soon they may get the "human touch." Researchers say they have developed a flexible sensor able to detect temperature, pressure and humidity simultaneously, and ...

Some robots can swim. Others can kick, fetch, jump or fly. But the latest development in the field of robotics lets machines carry out an activity that is somewhat less athletic: plugging in a USB ...

Could a squat, four-wheeled robot rolling out of Hyundai’s labs be the next big disruptor in logistics and industrial work?

In October, another YouTube video shows the Shenzhen-based company’s two Oli humanoid robots lying flat on the ground and ...