Robot skin that senses touch and pain — and triggers instant reflexes — makes robots more like humans. It probably also makes ...

Scientists at the University of Texas at Arlington, for example, have built a soft exoskeleton that fastens onto the arm and, in one recent study, reduced how hard participants’ biceps and triceps had ...

Engineers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have developed an AI-driven robotic assembly system lets users build ...

If you accidentally put your hand on a hot object, you'll naturally pull it away fast, before you have to think about it.

Researchers in China built a neuromorphic robotic skin that lets humanoid robots sense pain and react instantly to harm.

When people are dropped into the most dangerous of conditions – as when disaster strikes, or during exploration of another planet – they generally have the highest number of needs and the lowest ...