Recent studies of the skin and structure of an elephant's trunk are revealing valuable insights for grasping and tactile ...

A snailfish filmed alive at 8,336 meters in the Izu-Ogasawara Trench. A ram’s horn squid caught on video for the first time ...

Real guppies respond to Robofish—a 3D-printed plastic model with a vaguely realistic paint job—as if it were a real schoolmate. Researchers used different-sized Robofish to show that guppy schools ...

A robotic rat learned how to befriend real rats using AI. The wheeled rat was designed to provide companionship for lab rats, which can live pretty secluded and lonely lives. The robots have movements ...

Tombot, a leader in health and wellness robotic companion animals, today announced the successful closing of a $7 million Series A3 financing round. The round includes investments from Caduceus ...

Researchers have developed an Artificial Intelligence (AI) system that enables a four-legged robot to adapt its gait to different, unfamiliar terrain, just like a real animal, in what is believed to ...

The latest TED talk feels a few years ahead of its time. Featuring Markus Fischer, the head of corporate design for German tech company Festo, the video shows what appears to be a sort of stiff ...

The Social Robotics Group of the Robotics Lab at the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M) has developed an AI-based ...

A pilot program at UCHealth University of Colorado Hospital is using robotic animals to bring joy and connection to patients ...

Scientists hope the AI toy could help older people cope with the effects of stress and loneliness as well as be an ...