PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- University of Pennsylvania researchers have created what they describe as the world's tiniest robot. It's a machine so small it is barely visible to the naked eye, yet equipped with sensors, a motor and its own onboard computer.

Tesla CEO Elon Musk has shared a new video demonstrating a major update for the company’s Optimus humanoid robot. In a video shared by the EV maker on the microblogging site X (formerly Twitter), the Tesla Optimus robot can be seen running. The clip ...

(Nanowerk News) Engineers have designed robots that crawl, swim, fly and even slither like a snake, but no robot can hold a candle to a squirrel, which can parkour through a thicket of branches, leap across perilous gaps and execute pinpoint landings on ...

With their ability to shapeshift and manipulate delicate objects, soft robots could work as medical implants, deliver drugs inside the body and help explore dangerous environments. But the squishy machines are often limited by rigid mechanical parts or external systems that provide power or help them move.

Startup Neura Robotics GmbH is reportedly in talks to raise a funding round worth €1 billion, or about $1.2 billion. Bloomberg today cited sources as saying that the deal could include contributions from crypto giant Tether Limited Inc. The company is ...

In the future, a caregiving machine might gently lift an elderly person out of bed in the morning and help them get dressed. A cleaning bot could trundle through a child’s room, picking up scattered objects, depositing toys on shelves and tucking away ...

Philadelphia residents are clashing with Uber Eats delivery robots, with incidents of kicking and sitting on the autonomous sidewalk couriers reported.