This story appears in the September 2017 issue of National Geographic magazine. One man, one robotic arm, dozens of electrodes—these are the elements of a breakthrough experiment that’s ...

We all might dream of having an industrial robot arm at our disposal, complete with working controller that doesn’t need constant maintenance and replacement parts, and which is able to help us ...

The communications lag between Earth and Jupiter means missions to Europa will need to be smart to deal with problems on ...

Elon Musk’s brain implant company, Neuralink, announced on Tuesday that it is launching a study to test its implant for a new use: allowing a person to control a robotic arm using just their ...

Engineers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have developed a unique way to teach general-purpose robots new ...

"I'll use the robot arm to clean the table surface," the robot ... the experiment is a "proof-of-concept for a robot control ...

said it is starting to test a technology that could allow paralyzed people to control a robotic arm. The early-stage study is known as a first-in-human trial, meaning that any approved device is ...

While the creators of the Artificial Muscles Robotic Arm are fairly quiet about how it works, perusing through the [Automaton Robotics] YouTube Channel does shed some light on the matter.

A fresh call for (human) guinea pigs has been launched. Neuralink's next project seeks to enable patients to control a robotic arm simply by the power of their thoughts. This innovation follows on ...

Impact Link Neuralink has successfully implanted its brain chip in two human patients — and now it wants to hook it up to a robotic arm. Elon Musk's brain implant startup said on Monday that it ...