Robot assistants are on the way, but the latest models might need a human teleoperator to take over certain tasks by looking and listening inside your home.

China-based robotics firm LimX Dynamics has carried out a large-scale demonstration of autonomous humanoid robots operating ...

Scientists at MIT have developed a novel vision-based artificial intelligence (AI) system that can teach itself how to control virtually any robot without the use of sensors or pretraining. The system ...

Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We ...

Robots waste power & depend on control to move. A joint design shifts control into the structure, helping robots walk & grip ...

Robots are becoming smarter and more common, but their ability to handle objects with human-like precision remains limited.

Abstract Proportional-integral-derivative (PID) equipp-ed controllers are widely used in industrial robots potentially facing substantial payload and ...

Chinese robot maker Dobot Robotics has showcased its humanoid 'Atom' robot preparing a delicious steak. Although impressive enough, the real feat was the fact that the robot was remotely operated from ...

Can robots grasp diverse objects adaptively like humans? Published in National Science Review, researchers from Tsinghua University reports a human-taught sensory-control synergy approach that ...