For the past two years, the race in dexterous hands has been a numbers game: 6, 12, 22 degrees of freedom, with research versions pushing as high as 42. The implicit assumption seems to be that the ...

There is an ever-increasing demand for accuracy in many manufacturing industries. Adding to this general need for higher accuracy is the fact that industry sectors such as semiconductors and ...

Shanghai-based RoboParty has introduced the RP1 (ROBOTO 01), an open-source humanoid robot designed for robotics research, ...

When the electric guitar was first produced in the 1930s, there was some skepticism among musicians as to whether or not this instrument would have lasting impact or be a flash-in-the-pan novelty.

Freedom sounds great as an idea. Who doesn’t want to be free to do what they want? But when you take a closer look, freedom becomes more complicated. What does it really mean to be free — and how free ...