Researchers have built a force sensor the size of a grain of rice that lets robots feel pressure and twisting forces using light, and it's already finding hidden tumors in tissue during early tests.

Researchers in China have developed a rice-sized optical sensor that could give surgical robots ...

Robots now see the world with an ease that once belonged only to science fiction. They can recognize objects, navigate cluttered spaces and sort thousands of parcels an hour. But ask a robot to touch ...

Researchers at the National University of Singapore have developed a soft robot system that ...

To reliably complete various manual tasks, robots should be able to handle a variety of objects, ranging from items found in ...

AUSTIN (KXAN) — A breakthrough at the University of Texas could transform how robots touch you and everyday objects. Called Fragile Object Grasping with Tactile Sensing (FORTE), these special robot ...

General-purpose humanoid robots need all their senses to function equally well; vision and movement are the farthest along, ...

In a groundbreaking new study, researchers have developed an electronic skin that allows humanoid robots to distinguish everyday touch from damaging force. That ability, once reserved for living ...

The robot pauses at the edge of the room as an engineer checks its sensors. Then, with a soft mechanical hum, this humanoid ...