What Happened When We Set Up a Robotics Lab in a Mall
Building the next generation of robots for successful integration into our homes, offices, and factories is more than just solving the hardware and software…
العودة إلى News DigestHumanoid Humanoid Manipulation Humanoid Manipulation Humanoid Manipulation Humanoid Manipulation Humanoid Manipulation Humanoid Humanoid Manipulation Manipulation Manipulation Humanoid Manipulation Humanoid Humanoid Humanoid Manipulation
Digest
Manipulation — News Digest — Page 5
Robotics news tagged Manipulation. 118 articles · page 5 of 5.
Video Friday: Digit Learns to Dance—Virtually Overnight
Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We also post a weekly calendar of…
Scientists Build Living Robots With Nervous Systems
Engineers have long tried to mimic life. They’ve built machine learning algorithms modeled after the human brain, designed machines that walk like dogs or…
Gill Pratt Says Humanoid Robots’ Moment Is Finally Here
In 2012, the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency announced the DARPA Robotics Challenge (DRC). The multiyear, multimillion-dollar competition for…
Back to school: robots learn from factory workers
By Anthony King What if training a robot to handle dirty, dangerous work on the factory floor was as simple as showing it how? Czech startup RoboTwin is…
Video Friday: Beep! Beep! Roadrunner Bipedal Bot Breaks the Mold
Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We also post a weekly calendar of…
A Full and Engaging Second Day at ERF2026
Day two of ERF2026 brought a packed agenda, combining high-level discussions, hands-on sessions, and vibrant networking across the robotics community. The…
30 Years Ago, Robots Learned to Walk Without Falling
When you hear the term humanoid robot, you may think of C-3PO, the human-cyborg-relations android from Star Wars. C-3PO was designed to assist humans in…
The Coming Drone-War Inflection in Ukraine
WHEN KYIV-BORN ENGINEER Yaroslav Azhnyuk thinks about the future, his mind conjures up dystopian images. He talks about “swarms of autonomous drones…
Video Friday: Humanoid Learns Tennis Skills Playing Humans
Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We also post a weekly calendar of…
A multi-armed robot for assisting with agricultural tasks
Humans often use one hand to grasp the branch for better accessibility, while the other hand is used to perform primary tasks like (a) branch pruning and…
Video Friday: These Robots Were Born to Run
Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We also post a weekly calendar of…
Video Friday: A Robot Hand With Artificial Muscles and Tendons
Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We also post a weekly calendar of…
What Military Drones Can Teach Self-Driving Cars
Self-driving cars often struggle with situations that are commonplace for human drivers. When confronted with construction zones, school buses, power…
Robot Talk Episode 146 – Embodied AI on the ISS, with Jamie Palmer
Claire chatted to Jamie Palmer from Icarus Robotics about building a robotic labour force to perform routine and risky tasks in orbit. Jamie Palmer is…
Perseverance Smashes Autonomous Driving Record on Mars
This article is part of our exclusive IEEE Journal Watch series in partnership with IEEE Xplore.In past missions to Mars, like with the Curiosity and…
Video Friday: Humanoid Robots Celebrate Spring
Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We also post a weekly calendar of…
Reversible, detachable robotic hand redefines dexterity
2025 LASA/CREATE/EPFL CC BY SA. By Celia Luterbacher With its opposable thumb, multiple joints and gripping skin, human hands are often considered to be the…
Tech Is Taking Over Olympic Curling
At this year’s Winter Olympics in Italy, the controversy began with a fingertip.A disputed double-touch—whether a curler had brushed a moving stone…
Video Friday: Autonomous Robots Learn By Doing in This Factory
Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We also post a weekly calendar of…
Video Friday: Multitasking Robots Smoothly Do the Things Together
Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We also post a weekly calendar of…
Vine-inspired robotic gripper gently lifts heavy and fragile objects
The researchers demonstrated that the vine robot can safely and stably lift a variety of heavy and fragile objects, like a watermelon. Image credit:…