Despite how advanced robots have become, getting them to feel the way humans do is an incredibly complex challenge.

Can cutting open a robot be the best way to win an engineering argument? That slice through synthetic skin, theatrically done at XPENG’s 2025 AI Day in Guangzhou, wasn’t a stunt but a very deliberate ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. – Robots excel at many things, but having a good sense of touch is not among them. Whether dropping items or pinching them too tightly which crushes the object, many robots struggle with ...

Folding success is often scored using a method called Intersection over Union (IoU), which measures how fully the upper half of a fold covers the lower half. A perfect fold overlaps completely, giving ...

There is also a dance studio, complete with a wood floor and large mirrors. Here scientists record the movements of human ...

Although they're constantly improving, robots aren't necessarily known for their gentle touch. A new robotic system from MIT ...

BEIJING, China — Humanoid robots raced and punched their way through three days of a multi-sport competition at the World Humanoid Robot Games, wrapping up Sunday in Beijing. But they also toppled, ...

Humans can detect buried objects without touching them, sensing faint pressure ripples in sand. Scientists are calling this ...

Humans can “catch” fear from robots, new research has shown. The findings – by a team of psychologists from the University of Amsterdam and the University of British Columbia – shed new light on how ...