Robots are becoming increasingly capable in vision and movement, yet touch remains one of their major weaknesses. Now, ...

Claire chatted to Alan Winfield from the University of the West of England about developing new standards for ethics and ...

Maria Guix is a chemist and nanotechnology researcher in the University of Barcelona’s ChemInFlow lab, developing ...

Screenshot from video showing underwater robotic vehicle. Credit: Tim Briggs/MIT Lincoln Laboratory.

My topic of research was developing an optical tactile sensor to track head motion during radiotherapy. I worked on both the ...

Last year, Norwegian-US tech company 1X announced a strange new product: “the world’s first consumer-ready humanoid robot designed to transform life at home”. Standing 168 centimetres tall and ...

Claire chatted to Jamie Palmer from Icarus Robotics about building a robotic labour force to perform routine and risky tasks in orbit. Jamie Palmer is co-founder and CTO of Icarus Robotics. He earned ...

Image taken from the YouTube video created by the authors (see below). A system developed by researchers at the University of Waterloo lets people collaborate with groups of robots to create works of ...

With its opposable thumb, multiple joints and gripping skin, human hands are often considered to be the pinnacle of dexterity, and many robotic hands are designed in their image. But having been ...

Claire chatted to Agata Suwala from the Manufacturing Technology Centre about leveraging robotics to make manufacturing systems more sustainable. Agata Suwala is a Technology Manager at the ...

Computer-aided design (CAD) systems are tried-and-true tools used to design many of the physical objects we use each day. But CAD software requires extensive expertise to master, and many tools ...

Plastic pollution is one of those problems everyone can see, yet few know how to tackle it effectively. I grew up walking the beaches around Tramore in County Waterford, Ireland, where plastic debris ...