How can a horde of active robots be automatically brought to a standstill? By arresting their dynamics in a self-sustained way. This phenomenon was discovered by physicists at Heinrich Heine ...

On August 26, 2025, Financial界 reported that the Shenzhen Institute of Artificial Intelligence and Robotics and Shenzhen ...

Engineers at Harvard have created an artificial snakeskin material that can help crawling robots to maneuver on even the roughest surfaces.

A video of ALLEX (top) shows a camera- and sensor-laden head, and astonishingly versatile hands with fast-moving fingers and human-like motion. Those rapid, spidery movements may send a shiver down ...

At issue is something called elastohydrodynamic lubrication friction, which is the friction that occurs when two solid surfaces come into contact with a thin layer of fluid between them.

Bloomberg reported that Intuitive Surgical has issued a recall affecting more than 1,300 robot arms of its da Vinci surgical around the world because they may be producing too much friction. When ...

Learn about ALLEX, the first general-purpose robot from WIRobotics, designed for industrial and household tasks with precision.

"Reports of friction within certain instrument arms can interrupt smooth instrument motion," the FDA warns, in a notice related to Intuitive Surgical's (NASDAQ:ISRG) robots. “This can be felt by ...

Although robotic devices are used in everything from assembly lines to medicine, engineers have a hard time accounting for the friction that occurs when those robots grip objects - particularly in ...