SPARTANBURG, SC—Two humanoid robots have completed an 11-month pilot project at BMW’s assembly plant here.

Much of the country’s been slammed by bitter cold and snow, and winter hasn’t even started. The early blast sent yards ...

Creating a robot for small parts handling calls for a machine design that is both highly dynamic and extremely precise. With the Galileo Sphere, the Italian Mechatronic System Company has built a ...

[Dickel]’s robot MDi #4 has been in progress for several years, but what we wanted to draw your attention to is the way the parts have been fabricated and what kind of remarkable results are possible ...

Our muscles are nature's actuators. The sinewy tissue is what generates the forces that make our bodies move. In recent years, engineers have used real muscle tissue to actuate "biohybrid robots" made ...

The flexibility of the ever-tapering tentacles on an octopus, combined with grippers, inspired a robotic grabbing tool. (Pseudopanax via Wikimedia Commons) When robots lend humans a hand on the ...

An automated system designs and 3D prints complex robotic parts called actuators that are optimized according to an enormous number of specifications. In short, the system does automatically what is ...

The technology that is rapidly changing today’s packaging industry seems almost like science fiction. Allow me to enlist the aid of Hollywood to make the point. Suppose we hop into Doc Brown’s ...

When one robot leaves the world, another enters it. There’s plenty of carbon fiber in space right now. It’s the best bet we have for making spacecraft lighter—and it’s going to be key on deep space ...