Human hands are a wonder of nature and unmatched in the animal kingdom. They can twist caps, flick switches, handle tiny objects with ease, and perform thousands of tasks every day. Robot hands ...

A flexible electronic skin inspired by shark electroreception lets robotic hands identify object shapes and materials through both non-contact electrostatic scanning and touch-based sensing.

Indoor farms, also known as vertical farms, are popular among agricultural researchers and are expanding across the ...

“Compared to the rest of the world, China’s advantage in embodied AI lies in its robust hardware manufacturing base and supply chain, which could position it to rapidly scale production once the ...

A new artificial intelligence control system enables soft robotic arms to learn a wide repertoire of motions and tasks once, ...

Sellafield has successfully trialed Boston Dynamics’ Spot robot to safely perform radioactive swabbing in hazardous nuclear decommissioning areas.

To his credit, Kasy is a realist here. He doesn’t presume that any of these proposals will be easy to implement. Or that it will happen overnight, or even in the near future. The troubling question at ...

Synopsys ramps up work around physical AI to help build adaptive machines capable of sensing and interacting with physical environments ...

The Times is publishing AI-written sale blurbs and weather alerts. Editors call it additive; an AI policy is pending.

Sometimes, entrepreneurs looking to create a new product opt to start with a problem, then figure out the fix.