An adhesive inspired by the foot pads of geckos allows a robot to scale both smooth and rough vertical surfaces.

It takes more than words to cure a lonely heart. Scientists have discovered that adding music to a robot's repertoire makes it feel more lifelike and emotionally supportive.

The compound eyes of the humble fruit fly are a marvel of nature. They are wide-angle and can process visual information ...

A bioinspired robotic eye could inspire the next generation of autonomous vehicles, drones and industrial robots.

Robots and self-driving cars could soon benefit from a new kind of brain-inspired hardware that can allegedly detect movement and react faster than a human. A new study published in the journal Nature ...

China’s birth rate has hit a historic low – deepening fears of a major economic shock in the decades to come as the country’s ...

Many robots are equipped with cameras to allow them to see the world. These digital eyes record sequences of still images which must somehow be interpreted as motion. A popular approach is optical ...

A person looks at a robot arm inside a glass workspace. The A-Lab at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory uses artificial intelligence and robotics to synthesize new materials without human ...

Long live the queen Last week at the University of Graz in Austria, researchers from the EU-funded RoboRoyale project were ...

The breakthrough builds on neuromorphic engineering, a field that designs hardware modeled after the human brain. Unlike traditional processors, which separate memory and computation, neuromorphic ...