Researchers at Stanford University have successfully developed a stretchy, transparent, skin-like sensor which can be used in such applications as prosthetic limbs, robotics, and touch-sensitive ...

If you've ever moved into a new home, you know the challenge of packing a moving truck—it's like solving a giant, ...

(Nanowerk News) Flexible piezoelectric sensors are essential to monitor the motions of both humans and humanoid robots. However, existing designs are either are costly or have limited sensitivity. In ...

A soft armband that lets you steer a robot while you sprint on a treadmill or bob on rough seas sounds like science fiction.

Eric Aguilar, a former Tesla engineer, founded Omintron Sensors on a bet that self-driving cars and humanoid robots will need ...

Researchers at the University of Tel Aviv have developed a robot that can "smell" using an innovative biological sensor. The sensor transfers electrical information in response to the presence of an ...

To make human-robot interactions safer and more fruitful, robots should be capable of sensing their environment. In a recent study, researchers developed a novel robotic link with tactile and ...

Christian Brommer, Alessandro Fornasier, Jan Steinbrener and Stephan Weiss, all members of the Control of Networked Systems research group at the time their research was conducted, have developed a ...

Honda surprised literally nobody with its announcement that the next generation of its Miimo robot mowers won’t need a perimeter wire. More surprising was the other tech, taken from its cars, in its ...

Nitin J. Sanket, a professor at WPI, has developed small flying robots with his team that fit in the palm of a hand and use ultrasound — just like bats. These robots use AI-powered software to filter ...