The quest to mimic human touch in technology has led researchers to explore piezoelectric and triboelectric effects as pivotal phenomena. These effects underpin a new generation of tactile sensors ...

Robotics companies building enabling systems like sensors and LiDAR attracted $1.6 billion in 2025, as every robot needs vision capabilities. Medical robotics shows the clearest path from startup to ...

(Yicai) Dec. 23 -- Fourier's recently launched six-axis force sensor for humanoid robots will be priced at just half of what ...

As the boundaries between robots and collaborative robots (cobots) fade, the need for fast, agile and uncaged robot systems grows rapidly. Today’s cobots typically rely on power- and force-limiting ...

ORNL scientists developed an autonomous field data-gathering platform to monitor and sample soils and transfer real-time data back to the lab. From left, ORNL’s Chris Masuo, Peter Wang, Udaya Kalluri ...

Researchers at the Columbia University School of Engineering and Applied Science have invented ‘all-optical’ nanoscale sensors of force that change intensity or color when you push or pull on them.

A tiny robot so small it can barely be seen can still "sense, think, and act" autonomously, according to the engineers who ...