Hey robot futurist! We've got one word for you: Actuators. They're the motorized joints that make robots strong, agile, and precise and they're getting better all the time.

The ZeGoBeast Electric is a large, mean-looking built-it-yourself walking robot that's designed to be as simple to build as possible. The team hopes that the DIY walker will become a tool for ...

But a start-up company called Grabit is using static electricity as a way to allow robots to manipulate the real world. In particular, Nike is using these robots to build shoes.

Technology nowadays can really spur creativity and there's nothing you can't do with a 3D printer, CAAD and some skills. Like a surveillance military robot.

Lance Cpl. Malik Pugh is building electric skateboards and robots after he’s done working on complicated satellite communications.

Boston Dynamics just released new videos of its Atlas robot moving engine covers from one place to another. It's the first time we've seen the new fully electric Atlas robot doing work-like tasks ...

An artificial intelligence-aided robot from Mitsubishi Electric shattered the world record for solving Rubik's Cube in less than a second.

A soft electroactive gel enables untethered robots to deform, grip, and move using only external electric fields, eliminating the need for internal wiring or circuitry.

Actuators make robots leap and run and do backflips and lift 500-pound pipes (different robots, mind you, thank God). The electric car? That’s impressive as hell, but just the beginning.