Daniela Rus has spent her career breaking barriers—scientific, social, and material—in her quest to build machines that amplify rather than replace human capability. She made robotics her life’s work, ...

MIT engineers have quietly solved one of the biggest bottlenecks in living-tissue robotics, creating synthetic tendons that let soft muscle pull on hard plastic with far more force and control. By ...

Created by an engineering team at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and led by graduate student Fangzheng Liu and Principal Investigators Ariel Ekblaw and Joseph Paradiso, AstroAnts are ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When Rodney Brooks talks about robotics and artificial intelligence, you should listen. Currently the Panasonic Professor of ...

In its decades-long quest to mimic life, robotics has never had much trouble duplicating its brute force. Machines have long been capable of moving vehicles, assembling chips, and reaching the far ...