It is hard enough to beat computers at games like chess. Now robotics engineers at the Ishikawa Watanabe Laboratory in Japan have created a janken robot that wins every time (if you didn’t know, ...

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It's hard not to see the precedents in pop culture. [youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4TPgV7QFOcQ[/youtube] With that in mind… anyone working on a world ...

Engineers at Harvard University and the University of California, San Diego, have created the first robot with a 3D-printed body that transitions from a rigid core to a soft exterior. The robot is ...

Growing up, we learn to push just hard enough to move a box and to avoid touching a hot pan with our bare hands. Now, a robot ...

A new rubber computer combines the feel of a human hand with the thought process of an electronic computer, replacing the last hard components in soft robots. Now, soft robotics can travel where ...

One, two, three! Anyone who’s ever played a game of Rock-Paper-Scissors knows that sometimes you win, sometimes you lose and sometimes you tie. That’s true if you’re playing against a human, but ...