Robot skin that senses touch and pain — and triggers instant reflexes — makes robots more like humans. It probably also makes ...

If you accidentally put your hand on a hot object, you'll naturally pull it away fast, before you have to think about it.

Read on to know how researchers develop a sensory skin that helps robots feel damage and pull away from harmful contact in ...

Soft robots that run on air instead of electricity are starting to behave less like simple inflatable toys and more like ...

Engineers aim to give robots a bit of common sense when faced with situations that push them off their trained path, so they can self-correct after missteps and carry on with their chores. The team's ...

Over at Intel’s R&D fair, Wired got to play with a robot hand that is able to sense an object it’s about to come in contact with before actually touching it. Using electrolocation, the fingertips of ...

Amazon has deployed over 750,000 robots to its fulfillment centers over the last decade or so, but now there's a new, shall we say, more sensitive addition. The company has announced Vulcan, its first ...

Robots excel at many things, but having a good sense of touch is not among them. Whether dropping items or pinching them too tightly, which crushes the object, many robots struggle with these basic ...

Purdue University has received $1.5 million in funding from the U.S. Army to develop advanced AI-driven robots capable of ...

Sergey Levine is an assistant professor at UC Berkeley whose research is focused on the thing our parents used to make such a fuss over, whenever we made stupid mistakes or should have known to avoid ...

Taylor worked with AP from 2018 to 2025, most recently as Google Editor. Amazon unveiled Vulcan, a warehouse robot with 'a sense of touch,' at an event in Germany. Vulcan adds/removes items from pods ...