SoftBank announced in early October 2025 that it has agreed to acquire Swiss industrial giant ABB's robotics business for US$5.375 billion, with the deal expected to close in the second half of 2026.

You may not remember it, but odds are you took a few tumbles during your toddler era. You weren't alone. Falling, after all, ...

Astronauts could soon be able to move more freely thanks to a soft robotic exosuit developed by researchers at the University ...

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The new Neo robot from 1X is designed to do chores. It'll need help from you and from folks behind the curtain.

Forget the cold, metal robots of science fiction. At Georgia Tech, scientists are building something very different—machines ...

Massachusetts robotics entrepreneurs focus on specialized machines, while West Coast companies pour billions into humanoid ...

A team of researchers from the National Institutes for Quantum Science and Technology (QST) and Tokyo Metropolitan University has developed a biomaterial that could change how we treat muscle ...

This dual cross-linking design lets the muscle switch stiffness on demand. In lab tests, its stiffness jumps from about 213 ...

Prof. Guoying Gu team from Shanghai Jiao Tong University unveiled millimeter-scale soft robots today, solving a minimally ...

One day, robots might navigate through your blood vessels to break up clots, deliver targeted chemotherapy or repair ruptured blood vessels more efficiently and effectively than existing tools, ...

AI-powered muscles, made from lifelike materials, paired with intelligent control systems can perform motions that feels ...