Robotics

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Rethinking how robots move: Light and AI drive precise motion in soft robotic arm

Rethinking how robots move: Light and AI drive precise ...

Photo credit: Jeff Fitlow/Rice University By Silvia Cernea Clark Researchers at ...

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Mars rovers serve as scientists’ eyes and ears from millions of miles away – here are the tools Perseverance used to spot a potential sign of ancient life

Mars rovers serve as scientists’ eyes and ears from mil...

Scientists absorb data on monitors in mission control for NASA’s Perseverance Ma...

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Robot Talk Episode 127 – Robots exploring other planets, with Frances Zhu

Robot Talk Episode 127 – Robots exploring other planets...

Claire chatted to Frances Zhu from the Colorado School of Mines about intelligen...

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Women in robotics you need to know about 2025

Women in robotics you need to know about 2025

October 1 was International Women in Robotics Day, and we’re delighted to introd...

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Interview with Zahra Ghorrati: developing frameworks for human activity recognition using wearable sensors

Interview with Zahra Ghorrati: developing frameworks fo...

In this interview series, we’re meeting some of the AAAI/SIGAI Doctoral Consorti...

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Robot Talk Episode 128 – Making microrobots move, with Ali K. Hoshiar

Robot Talk Episode 128 – Making microrobots move, with ...

Claire chatted to Ali K. Hoshiar from University of Essex about how microrobots ...

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From sea to space, this robot is on a roll

From sea to space, this robot is on a roll

Rishi Jangale and Derek Pravecek with RoboBall III. Image credit: Emily Oswald/T...

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Robot Talk Episode 129 – Automating museum experiments, with Yuen Ting Chan

Robot Talk Episode 129 – Automating museum experiments,...

Claire chatted to Yuen Ting Chan from Natural History Museum about using robots ...

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Robot Talk at the Smart City Robotics Competition

Robot Talk at the Smart City Robotics Competition

Claire chatted to competitors, exhibitors, and attendees at the Smart City Robot...

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Robot Talk Episode 130 – Robots learning from humans, with Chad Jenkins

Robot Talk Episode 130 – Robots learning from humans, w...

Claire chatted to Chad Jenkins from University of Michigan about how robots can ...

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Using generative AI to diversify virtual training grounds for robots

Using generative AI to diversify virtual training groun...

The “steerable scene generation” system creates digital scenes of things like ki...

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Social media round-up from #IROS2025

Social media round-up from #IROS2025

The 2025 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IR...

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A flexible lens controlled by light-activated artificial muscles promises to let soft machines see

A flexible lens controlled by light-activated artificia...

This rubbery disc is an artificial eye that could give soft robots vision. Image...

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Robot Talk Episode 131 – Empowering game-changing robotics research, with Edith-Clare Hall

Robot Talk Episode 131 – Empowering game-changing robot...

Claire chatted to Edith-Clare Hall from the Advanced Research and Invention Agen...

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Teaching robots to map large environments

Teaching robots to map large environments

A new approach developed at MIT could help a search-and-rescue robot navigate an...

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Robot Talk Episode 132 – Collaborating with industrial robots, with Anthony Jules

Robot Talk Episode 132 – Collaborating with industrial ...

Claire chatted to Anthony Jules from Robust.AI about their autonomous warehouse ...

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