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Byline: Andrew Wade Engineers at Cornell University have designed a soft robotic hand that uses optical waveguides to give it a sense of touch, enabling it to detect a ripe [...]

Byline: Andrew Wade Professor Rob Richardson, Director of the National Facility for Innovative Robotic Systems at the University of Leeds, discusses the role robots can have in maintaining the built [...]

Byline: Andrew Wade Berkeley engineers have designed a robot that mimics how bush babies jump, and which can spring off walls in movements inspired by parkour and freerunning. Known as [...]

Byline: Andrew Wade Andrew Wade, senior reporter In a week where the Tories made ludicrous proposals for foreign workers that echoed the 1930s, I had the pleasure of attending a [...]

Byline: Andrew Wade A two-week mission involving ten marine robots has got underway off the coast of northwest Scotland in preparation for the Royal Navy’s Unmanned Warrior exercise. It is [...]

Byline: Andrew Wade Engineers from Harvard’s John A Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences have created an autonomous miniature robot made entirely from soft materials. Nicknamed octobot, the device [...]

Byline: Andrew Wade Stephen Pithouse recently graduated from the University of Warwick with a First in engineering. Passionate about robotics from a young age, he worked with industrial automation firm [...]

Byline: Andrew Wade Students at Bielefeld University of Applied Sciences in Germany have developed a pressure-sensitive chain-like robot that can adapt to the terrain it is crossing. Named after the [...]

Byline: Andrew Wade This week’s Thursday video comes from Georgia Tech, where researchers have created what they say is the world’s most efficient walking humanoid. DURUS, kitted out with size [...]

Byline: Andrew Wade Scientists at the École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) and Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich (ETHZ) have developed a range of micro-robots with various medical [...]

Byline: Andrew Wade The streets of London will soon be home to a fleet of the world’s first autonomous delivery robots, as Starship Technologies begins trials in Greenwich. Set up [...]

Byline: Andrew Wade Researchers at MIT, Sheffield University, and the Tokyo Institute of Technology, have developed a minute origami robot that unfolds in the stomach once ingested. The robot contains [...]

Byline: Andrew Wade A new self-driving agricultural robot known as IBEX is being trialled in the UK for the first time, identifying and destroying weeds on a farm in the [...]

Byline: Andrew Wade Airbus Group has embarked on a four-year research project to explore the feasibility of using humanoid robots in aerospace manufacturing. The technical intricacy and reduced economies of [...]

Byline: Andrew Wade Senior reporter As automation and artificial intelligence advance, what are the ethical implications for humanity? Earlier this week I came across an infographic published by tech website [...]

Byline: Andrew Wade The European Space Agency (ESA) has run through the final approach of its planned Asteroid Impact Mission (AIM), which will see it attempt to land on one [...]

Byline: Andrew Wade A new project at Schipol airport in Amsterdam will see a robot guiding passengers to their gates, navigating with a combination of maps and lasers. ‘Spencer’ is [...]

Byline: Andrew Wade UK gas distribution network SGN and US-based ULC Robotics have developed a new robotic system for inspecting and repairing live gas mains from inside the pipes. The [...]

Byline: Andrew Wade The first ever UK Robotics Week is set to take place from 25 June to 1 July 2016, with the aim of highlighting UK robotics innovation and [...]