Xiaomi is best known for smartphones, smart home gear, and the occasional electric vehicle update. Now it wants a place in robotics research too. The company has announced Xiaomi-Robotics-0, an ...

Human hands are a wonder of nature and unmatched in the animal kingdom. They can twist caps, flick switches, handle tiny objects with ease, and perform thousands of tasks every day. Robot hands ...

Scientists at the Chinese Academy of Sciences have engineered a breakthrough in robotic vision.

Current robots are severely limited in their intelligence by the constraints inherent in rigid electronic hardware frameworks. The advancement of flexible electronic technology has driven a component ...

Advances in motor design have allowed different types of robots to both specialize for industrial functions and converge in precision.

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For many people, the word robot still conjures up images of an all-knowing, all-capable, all-metal machine shaped approximately like a human being. The image, of course, comes largely from the ...