This week the folks at Hankook Mirae Technology unveiled Method-2, the "world's first manned bipedal robot." This is not the first time a robot like this has been imagined – it's been in sci-fi films ...

Though Atlas was designed to resemble a person in other ways, its hands aren’t exactly one-to-one. Instead, company engineers ...

In January this year, I blogged about Power Loader, a power-amplifying robotic suit that enables humans to carry loads of up to 100kg. Developed by Tokyo-based robot venture Activelink, a venture spun ...

The individual parts have apparently yet to be assembled but are presently sitting on runners in Shinjuku Station in Tokyo. However, over the course of the coming days and weeks, they will gradually ...

Science Progress (1933-), Vol. 103, No. 1 (2020), pp. 1-21 (21 pages) Parallel kinematic machines have been applied in aerospace and automotive manufacturing due to their potentials in high speed and ...

Hold fire on those Christmas lists. Japanese artist Kogoro Kurata has unveiled a 13 ft (4 meter) tall, 9900 lb (4500 kg) prototype mecha robot called Kuratas, which comes complete with "weapon systems ...

Honestly, this is a bargain for a mech. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Tsubame Industries is a startup from Japan whose whole ...