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  1. 9 ways robots are helping humans: Robodogs to magnetic slime

    Jul 10, 2025 · Robots are helping humans in a growing number of places – from archaeological sites to disaster zones and sewers. The most recent robotic inventions can entertain people in …

  2. Robotics | MIT News | Massachusetts Institute of Technology

    3 days ago · Robot, know thyself: New vision-based system teaches machines to understand their bodies Neural Jacobian Fields, developed by MIT CSAIL researchers, can learn to control any …

  3. Robots news, articles and features | New Scientist

    robots Technology Remarkable robot images provide a vision of the future These photographs of humanoid robots by Henrik Spohler are part of his project Tomorrow Is the Question Regulars

  4. Eldercare robot helps people sit and stand, and catches them if …

    May 13, 2025 · The robot can support the person’s full weight, lifting them from sitting to standing and vice versa along a natural trajectory. And the arms of the robot can catch them by rapidly …

  5. What is a robot? - New Scientist

    The word “robot” was coined by the Czech writer Karel Čapek in a 1920 play called Rossum’s Universal Robots, and is derived from the Czech robota, meaning “drudgery” or “servitude”.

  6. Humanoid robots offer disruption and promise. Here's why

    Jun 16, 2025 · Companies and individuals alike can benefit from humanoid robots, but society and industry will require clear guardrails to embrace this transformation.

  7. A flexible robot can help emergency responders search through …

    Apr 2, 2025 · SPROUT is a flexible robot built by MIT Lincoln Laboratory and Notre Dame researchers to assist in disaster response. Emergency responders can use the robot to …

  8. Publications | World Economic Forum

    4 days ago · The World Economic Forum publishes a comprehensive series of reports which examine in detail the broad range of global issues it seeks to address with stakeholders as …

  9. Robotics news, articles, and features | New Scientist

    Robotics is the science and engineering of designing, building and programming robots to perform a wide range of tasks. Most modern robots are automated industrial machines that execute …

  10. New system enables robots to solve manipulation problems in …

    Jun 5, 2025 · A new system enables a robot to “think ahead” and consider thousands of potential motion plans simultaneously, allowing the robot to solve a multistep problem in a few seconds.