Robotics

Soft robot fingers are hard to simulate.

The robot arm freezes mid-task.

The Pentagon wants Claude gone. The military doesn't — and the six-month phaseout is already running into resistance that has nothing to do with AI safety.

There is a problem at the center of soft robotics that nobody has fully solved: how do you make something that is simultaneously safe enough to be near a human and rigid enough to do useful work? The usual answers — pneumatic bladders, vacuum-jammed granular packets, heated shape-memory alloys — ...

On the night of March 14, 2026, somewhere around 1 a.m., a neon-green quadcopter drifted over the fence at Marcy Correctional Facility in central New York and dropped a package into the yard.

A humanoid robot built by a Beijing robotics startup can now play a sustained game of tennis against a human — and the trick isn't better hardware, it's how you teach it. Researchers from Tsinghua University, Peking University, Galbot, and Shanghai AI Laboratory published a preprint on arXiv on ...

Most restaurant workers would be fired on the spot for smashing a customer's dinnerware while grinning through the chaos.

The drone problem keeps getting worse, and the counter-drone industry is rushing to fill the gap.

The consumer robotics market is moving faster than the rules governing it.

Most robots are fragile in exactly the ways their creators don't anticipate.

Outside a solar farm in the California desert, the labor math is brutal: temperatures above 110 degrees, injury rates that make construction look tame, and a workforce that turns over fast.