We've all seen the movies: robots that look and behave like humans are among us, and chaos ensues. Most of the time, it's some sort of conflict between the two species, whether a full-fledged war or ...

Robots could soon be cloaked in human-like synthetic skin, similar to the cyborg assassin of the “Terminator” movie franchise, after Stanford University researchers developed an ultra-realistic, ...

Thin, stretchy skin -- like that of a pig or human -- significantly lessens the underlying damage that occurs when it's punctured. Pig skin even outperforms synthetic materials that are designed to ...

Robots have become remarkably good at seeing and moving, but their sense of touch still lags far behind that of humans. A new ...

The sensor is stretchy in all directions, but no batter how much you stretch it, it always rebounds to the original shape. [Photo: Stanford University] Researchers have found plenty of uses for carbon ...