The knees of this robot are actuated using a pair of motors with ball screws, which are not back drivable. This means that external sensors are needed to allow the motors to actively respond to ...

Now comes another step toward more lovable (or at least soft) robots. A new type of sensor might enable us to poke a robot as if it had the squishy belly button of the Pillsbury Dough boy.

A fleet of 100 robots ... the river's flow and to navigate the delta's water. The foot-long devices, 40 of them fitted with propellers, are designed to serve as unique water-borne sensors to ...