A robotic hand with fingernail-like tips lets robots peel fruit, open lids and pick up thin, flat objects with more precise, human-like dexterity.

Coordinating groups of underwater robots is difficult because communication below the surface is slow and unreliable. GPS ...

A robot trained on videos of surgeries performed a lengthy phase of a gallbladder removal without human help. The robot operated for the first time on a lifelike patient, and during the operation, ...

A breakthrough in medical technology could soon change how sinus infections are treated. Scientists have created micro-robots for sinus infection treatment that can enter the nasal cavity, eliminate ...

Most robot headlines follow a familiar script: a machine masters one narrow trick in a controlled lab, then comes the bold promise that everything is about to change. I usually tune those stories out.

In robotics, as in so many things, small is beautiful. The trouble is that making them really small is very nearly impossible. “Building robots that operate independently at sizes below one millimeter ...

Purdue University’s Colleges of Science, Engineering, and Agriculture—together with the Purdue Office of Industry Partnerships and Purdue Polytechnic Institute—proudly present Robotics Day, a ...

AUSTIN (KXAN) — A little robot gobbles up little blocks on the floor of St. Michael’s Catholic Preparatory School’s gym. In the skies above it, two drones, one big and one small, flash lights at one ...

As waiting rooms fill up, doctors get increasingly burnt out, and surgeries take longer to schedule and more get cancelled, humanoid surgical robots offer a solution. That’s the argument that UC San ...