Robotics
Autonomy, humanoids and industrial robotics
RoboticsBeyond Dexterity: Why Contact May Define the Next Era of Robotics
This article is brought to you by AGILINK. Throughout the exhibition hall at the 2026 IEEE International Conference on Robotics (ICRA), in Vienna, one demonstration seemed to attract a disproportionate amount of attention. Two robotic hands
RoboticsHow JPL Keeps the 13-Year-Old Curiosity Rover Doing Science
Thirteen years ago last August, I was camped out in the Jet Propulsion Lab press room in Pasadena, Calif., waiting to see whether the Curiosity rover would survive its descent and skycrane-assisted landing on the surface of Mars. It did, an
RoboticsVideo Friday: Watch This Running Robot Not Fall Down Stairs
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RoboticsThis DIY Bipedal Robot Used Pneumatic “Air-Muscles” Instead of Motors
In 1987, Richard Greenhill, a British photographer who was fascinated by (but had no actual training in) robotics, decided he wanted to build a life-size humanoid that could do useful things, like carrying luggage. He was working at a start
RoboticsVideo Friday: Extreme Omnidirectional Robot
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RoboticsVideo Friday: Atlas Versus a Fridge
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