As the Spring Festival approaches, robot vacuum cleaners can be found on the shopping lists of some Chinese households.

Soft robots are only as capable as the artificial muscles that drive them, and for years those muscles have forced a trade-off between strength and flexibility. A new magnetic polymer design is ...

McGill University engineers have developed ultra-thin materials that can move, fold, and reshape themselves, ...

McGill University engineers have developed new ultra-thin materials that can be programmed to move, fold and reshape ...

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UBTech executive highlights difficulty in replacing workers with machines but manufacturers are still racing to order them ...

A top Chinese humanoid robot maker says its latest machines are only half as efficient as human workers. UBTech chief brand officer Michael Tam said the firm’s Walker S2 robots were 30 to 50 per cent ...

The roadmap outlines the development, deployment and ecosystem integration of the robot, which is designed to set new ...

Advanced electronic noses and algorithms are transforming robotic olfaction, enabling machines to detect odors for improved ...

Building things so small that they are smaller than the width of a human hair was previously achieved by using a method ...

Humanoid robots achieve only up to 50% of human productivity in limited factory tasks, said Michael Tam, chief brand officer ...

From underwater exploration vehicles and disaster-response robots to AI-powered farm assistants and smart security systems, ...