The GoQBot is a soft-bodied silicon rubber robot that uses a ballistic rolling technique powered by actuators made out of shape-memory alloy coils to move crazy fast—its push-off time is under 250ms, ...

China continues to make strides in the robotics industry. This time, the nation's engineers at robotic startup Mirror Me have created a new ultrafast robot dog called the Black Panther 2.0. It can run ...

Experienced human cyclists can perform a wide range of maneuvers and acrobatics while riding their bicycle, from balancing in place to riding on a single wheel or hopping over obstacles. Reproducing ...

A robot's intelligence can be smart, fast, or free of network dependency, but never all three at once. The embodied trilemma is anchored in physics, and the architecture that resolves it was designed ...

A few short months ago, almost every robot made by the hundreds of companies working on humanoid robots could charitably be described as slow, topping out at around three mph. Walking was on the edge ...

In a nutshell: Computers have been beating humans at games for a long while. OpenAI got its start with bots that could beat professional Starcraft players. Now, one engineer has built an unbeatable ...

Initially, the Perception module enables the robot to search and identify the object within its environment. Leveraging prior knowledge, the Grasp Planning module predicts an appropriate hand pose for ...

AI and robots need data — lots of it. Companies that have millions of users have an advantage in this data collection, because they can use the data of their customers. A well-known example is ...