Scientists at ETH Zürich have developed a mechanism for robots to grab things without touching them. It sounds like robots using The Force, but it’s just acoustic levitation, a technology that ...

Addams Family’s Thing went robotic. Swiss researchers have created a hand that can detach from a robotic arm and crawl off to grab things. Typically, robotic arms are fixed to keep them stable ...

We review ClicBot, a STEM-toy robot construction kit aimed at kids age 8 and up, though there’s enough sophistication here that it’ll engage geeky adults as well–whether or not they have kids.

Your kids can practice STEM skills out of the classroom playing with these awesome robotics kits. Here are our recommendations.

Robots, of course, have no inherent knowledge of this, which can make things difficult; it may not understand that it can’t pick up something of a given size, shape, or texture.

This Robot Hand Taught Itself How to Grab Stuff Like a Human. The system, developed by OpenAI, ends up “inventing” characteristic grasps that we humans already commonly use to handle objects.

Robots and game figures were really hot in 2014 and we’re predicting that they’ll be even hotter in 2015. Here are some of our favorites as we move into the New Year: ...

Developed by Embodied, Moxie is an AI-powered robot that can accompany, interact with and teach five-to-10 year old kids problem-solving and emotional intelligence.

The hand, developed at Switzerland’s EPFL, can detach from an arm, crawl around on its own, grab small objects, and bring them back before reattaching itself.