“Muscles never clamp directly onto bone.” This anatomical truth, as simple as it sounds, has become the blueprint for a leap ...

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 researchers huddled around a humanoid robot in a mock kitchen. The robot slowly scooped lemonade powder out of a bowl into a pitcher of water, mixed the liquid, and poured the lemonade into a ...

Thanks to new technologies like artificial intelligence, scientists are increasingly freed from the constraints of the laboratory. It raises questions about how much humans should outsource to robots.

MIT engineers built an ultrasound wristband that tracks 22 degrees of hand freedom with 120ms latency, enabling real-time robot hand and sign language control.

Engineers and computer scientists are developing AI-powered robots that look and act human. Boston Dynamics invited 60 ...

Scientists are building autonomous robotic labs powered by artificial intelligence. The goal, they say, is for these robots ...

A new study out of MIT has created an autonomously functioning robot that can act like a lab technician to test materials, in particular for the properties needed to make solar cells. It can collect ...