ACCORDING TO THE COUNTY. WAVERLE. MELISSA, BACK TO YOU. ALL RIGHT, SAMANTHA, THANK YOU. RESEARCHERS AT UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA-LINCOLN ARE DEVELOPING AN ARTIFICIAL MUSCLE. WELL, THEY SAY CAN WORK BOTH ...

NUS scientists have developed a self-training method that strengthens lab-grown muscle tissues around the clock, and used them to power a living-muscle robot that swims faster than any of its ...

Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few ...

Inspired by a pond microorganism that retracts its spiral stalk using geometry alone, soft gel helices now wind and unwind on their own to amplify motion. (Nanowerk Spotlight) When Vorticella, a ...

The U.S.-made LUCAS, a low-cost attack drone modeled on the Iranian Shahed-136, made its combat debut in Saturday’s strikes on Iran, and drew a wave of Shahed attacks in return. “CENTCOM's Task Force ...

In this episode of eSpeaks, Jennifer Margles, Director of Product Management at BMC Software, discusses the transition from traditional job scheduling to the era of the autonomous enterprise. eSpeaks’ ...

While 2026 has been an objectively terrible year for humans thus far, it’s turning out—for better or worse—to be a banner year for robots. (Robots that are not Tesla’s Optimus thingamajig, anyway.) ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The team used their new printing method to encode a photo of the Mona Lisa onto their smart skin material (left). The photo, which ...

The Svedka spot features LLM robots and synthetic people. Get ready for the Slopper Bowl? By Steven Zeitchik Senior Editor, Technology and Politics The 30-second commercial features Fembot and her new ...

Researchers are continuing to make progress on developing a new synthetic material that behaves like biological muscle, an advancement that could provide a path to soft robotics, prosthetic devices ...

Chemists made magnetically powered robots able to move faster with a clever design trick. They created a flexible film that has little pockets of magnetic powder in it, instead of mixing the powder ...