Researchers at Stanford University have created an innovative humanoid robot called "HumanPlus" that can learn and perform a wide range of tasks by observing human actions. This breakthrough in ...

Soft robots still tend to rely on hard electronics to function, but a new invention might reduce that need for unyielding chips. UC Riverside researchers have developed pneumatic computer memory that ...

Instead of designing a humanoid robot with AI reasoning and neural networks, you can just teach it yourself. Researchers at Stanford University developed a robot that can imitate what you’re doing in ...

You know those deep feelings of resentment you have towards your parents for the countless hours they made you practice the piano? Arpeggio, a piano-playing robot that could easily perform at Carnegie ...

A new soft sensing system could help humanoid robots move their hands with far greater precision in delicate, human-like ...

A humanoid robot recently took to the stage at the VOYAGEX Music Festival in China to show off its keyboarding skills. The bot accompanied Hu Yutong’s band for the performance, which showcased just ...

Music fills the air as two robots perform together on electronic keyboards. A robot completes delicate needle-threading tasks. These scenes, captured at the 2026 Zhongguancun (ZGC) Forum held from ...

An "air-powered" memory helped a soft robot to play the piano, using a technology called "pneumatic RAM" that uses atmospheric pressures to communicate the binary codes needed to function. The product ...

Sometimes robots can be better than humans at playing instruments. Sometimes they’re just cooler at it. This herd of little swarm robots—which divvy up the ...

Researchers are creating a glove that could help people who are recovering from a stroke to regain function in their hands again. So far, it’s still in development, but in early tests the robo-glove ...

Walking into the venue of the Zhongguancun Forum Annual Meeting before it officially kicks off, the first thing that catches the eye is a group of piano-playing robots. As their mechanical fingers ...