No matter how you feel about humanoid robots, they currently all have a technical limitation due to their form factor. Unless the robot is tethered to a power supply, it needs a battery, and unless ...

A robot vacuum is one of the best investments you can make in a smart home to delegate cleaning tasks. Like the Jetsons' Rosie the Robot, these devices require care to extend their lives and boost ...

Robots used to need our help to keep going. They had to be plugged in or manually recharged. Now, UBTech is changing that. The company’s new humanoid, the Walker S2, has a feature that could reshape ...

Ubtech Robotics' new Walker S2 humanoid robot changes its own battery in a demo video designed to showcase how autonomous battery swapping could let robots work 24/7 without interruption. Jesse Orrall ...

A research team at Cranfield University has developed a 3D-printed robot that moves forward using wind energy. The Wander-bot robot is inspired by Theo Jansen's “Strandbeesten” art project, in which ...

Cornell University researchers are building soft robots with “robot blood” that is both hydraulic fluid that provides motive force and at the same time a battery that stores and delivers energy ...

Robotic systems designed for remote or extreme environments face a consistent limitation: power. Movement alone can consume a ...