Design for manufacturing, or DFM, is a key part of bringing a robot from an idea to a prototype and ultimately to a finished, commercially available ...

A robot with bird-like legs that can walk, hop, leap and jump for take-off into flight has been designed in Switzerland in an engineering breakthrough that could enable aircraft to operate in ...

More than 300 student engineers converged for the South Carolina Robotics Finals, turning a single venue into a high-energy showcase ...

Labor is breaking. Robots are scaling. The real bottleneck isn’t hardware, it’s orchestration. Train humans to lead machines ...

Whether they’re delivering food or folding your laundry, consumer-facing robots are increasingly being designed to be more palatable to the humans who interact with them.

Top photo: A free-ranging squirrel leaps from one branch to a branch instrumented to measure force. (Image credit: Sebastian Lee). Bottom photo: A one-legged robot, called Salto, was modified to jump ...