A new robotic eye with a light-powered soft lens promises ultra-sharp vision that can be, focused wirelessly and reveals ...

At CES 2025, Wisson Robotics turned heads with live demonstrations of their innovative soft robotics systems, powered by the company’s proprietary Pliabot technology. The booth became a major ...

A newly developed robot is capable of performing soft-tissue surgery, and indeed performed better on tests than a human surgeon. Michelle Starr Science editor Michelle Starr is CNET's science editor, ...

Engineers at MIT have devised an ingenious new way to produce artificial muscles for soft robots that can flex in more than one direction, similar to the complex muscles in the human body. The team ...

Robots that can sense touch and perceive temperature differences? An unexpected material might just make this a reality. Researchers are developing soft and intelligent sensor materials based on ...

A soft armband that lets you steer a robot while you sprint on a treadmill or bob on rough seas sounds like science fiction.

VANCOUVER, Wash. – Seeing robots made with soft, flexible parts in action appears to lower people’s anxiety about working with them or even being replaced by them. A Washington State University study ...

In one campus laboratory, electrical engineering doctoral student Karthik Subramanian adds facial recognition and heart rate bio-signals into the mind of a 9-foot-tall robot. In another workshop, ...

The expanding regional need for robotics-trained workers now has a new feeder link of career learning as Butler Tech unveiled its latest adult education program Wednesday. An audience of dozens, ...

But just because that’s the general design palette for robotics doesn’t mean there aren’t other ways. Robots, especially those that are intended to be used in close association with humans, can often ...