Video Friday: Robotic Motion Discovery Reveals Unusual Behaviors
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Robotics news tagged Manipulation. 118 articles · page 3 of 5.
Award-Winning Researcher Trains Robots to Make Educated Guesses
Yen-Ling Kuo always wanted to understand how things worked. When she was growing up in Taiwan, reading the story of Michael Faraday in elementary school…
Hello Robot is recognized by World Economic Forum as a tech pioneer
The World Economic Forum has honored Hello Robot, whose Stretch system provides mobile manipulation to older adults and people with disabilities. The post…
Beyond Dexterity: Why Contact May Define the Next Era of Robotics
This article is brought to you by AGILINK.Throughout the exhibition hall at the 2026 IEEE International Conference on Robotics (ICRA), in Vienna, one…
Daimon Robotics and Galbot jointly launches RobOmni for benchmarking tactile perception and dexterous manipulation
Embodied AI is evolving from vision-centric perception toward Physical AI. The post Daimon Robotics and Galbot jointly launches RobOmni for benchmarking…
Video Friday: Watch This Running Robot Not Fall Down Stairs
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…
Robot Talk Episode 159 – Robot sensing and manipulation, with Maria Koskinopoulou
Claire chatted to Maria Koskinopoulou from Heriot-Watt University about autonomous robotic manipulators for surgery, industry, and beyond. Maria…
Festo launches lightweight pneumatic gripper and tests GripperAI
Festo has released a compact cobot gripper, and its robot-agnostic GripperAI enables grasping of objects without prior training. The post Festo launches…
Learn about advances in robotic case and each picking
Experts from Locus Robotics, Nomagic, and RightHand Robotics will discuss progress in piece picking in this week's webinar. The post Learn about advances in…
ANSCER Robotics closes Series A round for industrial material handling
ANSCER Robotics has raised $5.4 million to scale its hybrid industrial automation robots in North America and globally. The post ANSCER Robotics closes…
This DIY Bipedal Robot Used Pneumatic “Air-Muscles” Instead of Motors
In 1987, Richard Greenhill, a British photographer who was fascinated by (but had no actual training in) robotics, decided he wanted to build a life-size…
Video Friday: Extreme Omnidirectional Robot
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Handle with care: Soft robot gripper picks ripe fruit without bruising
Cornell researchers used stretchable fiber-optic sensors to create a soft robot gripper that can predict the ripeness of strawberries by touch. Credit:…
A guide to Day 1 of the 2026 Robotics Summit & Expo
Today, the Robotics Summit & Expo will be full of insightful talks, hands-on robot demos, and interesting conversations. The post A guide to Day 1 of…
XELA Robotics to show tactile sensing at the 2026 Robotics Summit & Expo
XELA Robotics will show at the Robotics Summit & Expo its improved magnetic interference compensation and uSkin in the Universal Manipulation…
Video Friday: Atlas Versus a Fridge
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…
The Future of Physical AI Isn’t Smarter Robots, It’s Smarter Interfaces
This sponsored article is brought to you by Wetour Robotics.A field technician on a wind turbine, harness clipped, both hands on a wrench, needs to send a…
Open-Source Software Is Starting to Help Robots Think
When a group of academics started making open-source robotics hardware, a generation of roboticists got years of their lives back. Now, the bigger challenge…
Will Robotics Have a ChatGPT Moment?
Over the next few decades, billions of autonomous, AI-powered robots will work alongside people in factories, perform tedious tasks in warehouses, care for…
Robots Could Turn E-Waste Into a Source of Legacy Chips
Electronic waste is moving up on regulatory agendas in 2026. New European waste-shipment rules, expanded recycling fees on products with non-removable…
What Makes a Job Dull, Dirty, or Dangerous?
For years, the field of robotics has used the terms “dull, dirty, and dangerous” (DDD) to describe the types of tasks or jobs where robots might be…
Video Friday: Heavy Robotic Machinery Operates Itself
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…
How Chinese short dramas became AI content machines
In a dimly lit bedroom, a frightened young woman is thrown onto a bed by a tall, muscular man. He grabs her hand, and flame-like vines crawl across her…
Hello Robot Sets the Standard for Practical, Safe Home Robots
Many roboticists (and at least one robotics journalist) have been seduced by the dream of a robot butler. And the rampant popularity of videos showing…