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A new wearable device, a-Heal, combines AI, imaging, and bioelectronics to speed up wound recovery. It continuously monitors wounds, diagnoses healing stages, and applies personalized treatments like medicine or electric fields. Preclinical tests showed healing about 25% faster than standard care, highlighting potential for chronic wound therapy.

KAIST research team's independently developed humanoid robot boasts world-class driving performance, reaching speeds of 12km/h, along with excellent stability, maintaining balance even with its eyes closed or on rough terrain. Furthermore, it can perform complex human-specific movements such as the duckwalk and moonwalk, drawing attention as a next-generation robot platform that can be utilized in actual industrial settings.

We're still a long way from the harmonious human-machine collaboration imagined in Isaac Asimov's stories. Getting there will require autonomous systems to perform reliably and safely, not just in controlled lab settings, but in messy, unpredictable real-world environments.

Robot umpires are coming to the big leagues in 2026 after Major League Baseball's 11-man competition committee on Tuesday approved use of the Automated Ball/Strike System.

Robots might be getting smarter, but to truly support people in daily life, they also need to become more empathetic. That means recognizing and responding to human emotions in real time.

To estimate the weight of a rock, you pick it up. Is it rough, or smooth? You run a finger over it. We're constantly gathering information through our sense of touch, which is closely connected to how we move.

PACK EXPO Las Vegas is this year’s largest gathering of packaging and processing professionals, offering attendees unique opportunities to uncover key technology solutions and make the connections that drive businesses forward.

Maintaining image clarity is a critical part of industrial automation. Not all sensors deliver the required consistency across different conditions. Learn how global shutter cameras help perform industrial automation tasks, their use cases, and must-have imaging features.

AI-powered analysis of routine blood tests can reveal hidden patterns that predict recovery and survival after spinal cord injuries. This breakthrough could make life-saving predictions affordable and accessible in hospitals worldwide.

A new study from the University of Waterloo has unveiled major privacy weaknesses in collaborative robots—calling for stronger defenses.

We’re strengthening the Frontier Safety Framework (FSF) to help identify and mitigate severe risks from advanced AI models.

Drones and Droids is a co-operative strategy game developed here at the Scottish Association for Marine Science (SAMS). In it, you and four other sentient beings set out on the deck of the research vessel Seol Mara with six of our best robots to investigate an algal bloom near Lismore. Your mission is to find the source of the bloom and determine if it is dangerous before it reaches the seafarms in Ardmucknish bay. The mechanics of the game are designed to reflect the behaviour of our robots, and the narrative of your mission is told as you explore the map and deal with various calamities drawn from the real-life experiences of the roboteers, phycologists and other scientists at SAMS.

We originally designed it as a teaching tool, but after good reviews from our local pro-gamers we’re currently running a crowdfunding campaign to allow us to do a full production run. There’s a little over a month to go and we’re half-way to our goal of £16000. If we can reach it, we’ll be able to give a copy to every school in Argyll, and have plenty left over to sell, supporting our research. If you have an interest in robotics, abyssal horrors or teaching the next generation of scientists and technicians about these subjects, please consider donating, and keep an eye on the Drones and Droids website for updates.

What the field needs is not more capital or bigger promises, but better frameworks for evaluating ideas and guiding innovation. If we can measure opportunities against these structures, robotics can finally move from flashy demonstrations to truly transformative technologies

What the field needs is not more capital or bigger promises, but better frameworks for evaluating ideas and guiding innovation. If we can measure opportunities against these structures, robotics can finally move from flashy demonstrations to truly transformative technologies

The Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) is calling for submissions to a competition for educational AI videos for general audiences. These videos must be two to three minutes in length and should aim to convey informative, accurate, and timely information about AI research and applications.

The video could highlight your own research, that of another researcher or group, introduce viewers to an AI topic, or include interviews with AI researchers. Any theme is welcome, but videos covering the following are particularly encouraged: large language models, AI and ethics, societal impact of AI, and risks of deployed AI.

The videos will be assessed in terms of their content, understandability, relevance to AI, entertainment value, and presentation quality.

To give you a flavour of what these videos could look like, click here to see the winners of the previous iteration of the competition.

The deadline for submissions is 30 November 2025. To submit, you must upload your video to a publicly accessible website, and fill in the submission form.

You can find out more here.