Researchers have developed muscle actuators that flex strongly enough to enable small robots to jump, swim, walk, and grasp.

Researchers have developed tissue-based muscle actuators that can enable robots to jump, swim, and grasp ...

Humanoid robots are becoming more capable of handling everyday objects and navigating different environments. This collection ...

Springtails, small bugs often found crawling through leaf litter and garden soil, are expert jumpers. Inspired by these hopping hexapods, roboticists in the Harvard John A. Paulson School of ...

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Engineers have created DirectHop, a roughly 1-gram robot that can perform multiple hops in sequence and jump high enough to clear a standard stair step. As our skies increasingly crowd with buzzing, ...

You may not know what a springtail is but man, those little things can jump! Scientists have now copied the creatures' jumping mechanism in a small robot that could one day explore places that people ...

Here’s something you don’t see every day, unless you happen to watch Terminator 2: Judgement Day that much: robots diving into a pool of molten metal. AI robotics firm Figure recently retired its ...

Figure AI has given its retired humanoid robots an extraordinary final mission, training them to leap into a 75 ton furnace in Finland.

Design of the robots has evolved through the research to the current state, where the muscle tissue is secured to the ...