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  1. Robotics | MIT News | Massachusetts Institute of Technology

    Dec 19, 2025 · Vine-inspired robotic gripper gently lifts heavy and fragile objects The new design could be adapted to assist the elderly, sort warehouse products, or unload heavy cargo.

  2. Robotics news, features and articles - Live Science

    Nov 18, 2025 · Discover how robots can help push the realms of science and engineering with the latest robotics news, features and articles.

  3. A new model offers robots precise pick-and-place solutions

    Aug 9, 2024 · Pick-and-place machines are a type of automated equipment used to place objects into structured, organized locations. These machines are used for a variety of applications — from …

  4. MIT researchers “speak objects into existence” using AI and robotics

    Dec 5, 2025 · MIT researchers at the School of Architecture and Planning developed a speech-to-reality system that combines generative AI, natural language processing, and robotic assembly to fabricate …

  5. Artificial tendons give muscle-powered robots a boost

    Dec 1, 2025 · MIT engineers developed artificial tendons that could connect robotic skeletons and biological muscle tissue. Made from tough and flexible hydrogel, the tendons could be used in …

  6. Watch this terrifying robotic torso spring into life - Live Science

    Nov 1, 2024 · Startup Clone Robotics has created an ultra-creepy humanoid torso with artificial muscles that are activated through a battery-powered hydraulic system and covered in ghostly-white "skin."

  7. Robotic hand can identify objects with just one grasp

    Apr 3, 2023 · MIT-developed soft-rigid robotic fingers incorporate powerful sensors along their entire length, enabling them to produce a robotic hand that could accurately identify objects after only one …

  8. Robots: Facts about these programmable and autonomous machines

    Apr 30, 2025 · Robots include a wide variety of machines, such as the giant arms used to make cars, automatic vacuum cleaners, humanoid machines that look like people and do backflips, and robotic …

  9. Robot, know thyself: New vision-based system teaches ... - MIT News

    Jul 24, 2025 · A 3D-printed robotic arm holds a pencil as it trains using random movements and a single camera — part of a new control system called Neural Jacobian Fields (NJF). Rather than relying on …

  10. MIT builds swarms of tiny robotic insect drones that can fly 100 times ...

    Feb 10, 2025 · Scientists have built a new type of robotic insect that can fly 100 times longer than previous generations.