A group of scientists announced today that they identified habitats and microbial life using a rover in Chile’s arid Atacama desert, one of the harshest environments on Earth, and that their findings ...

As a platform for autonomous scientific exploration, we have developed the AI Robot Platform shown in Fig. 1. This platform consists of four robotic arms with different functionalities placed around ...

Shellfish and robots might sound like they have nothing in common, but according to PhD candidate Aleix Costa, roboticists can learn a lot from nature. His research aims to bring these two worlds ...

Scientists show that breathing may be used to control a wearable extra robotic arm in healthy individuals, without hindering control of other parts of the body. Neuroengineer Silvestro Micera develops ...

Researchers in the the labs of Ron Alterovitz, a Lawrence Grossberg Distinguished Professor in the Department of Computer Science, and Jim Cahoon, a professor and chair of the Department of Chemistry, ...

Conventional robotic grippers struggle to adapt to complex shapes and sizes, such as those found in crops. This has created a demand for more adaptable robotic grippers that can be utilized in ...

A robotic arm that obeys human thoughts: this idea, worthy of science fiction, is the new ambition of Neuralink, Elon Musk's start-up. But how could this project transform the lives of paralyzed ...

A laboratory in Pittsburgh’s Bakery Square is poised to make the next breakthrough in wheelchairs, a mostly stagnant industry with huge quality of life implications for millions of disabled Americans.

FarmBots are the latest in innovative agriculture, especially in urban farming where arable land is limited and space is at a premium, thanks to the latest research from the University of Maryland ...