Sometimes, it's no pain, no gain in the world of robotics. The University of Michigan's walking robot Mabel broke a leg while demonstrating her ability to climb over a stack of wooden planks. Her ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Robots are good at a few simple things. They can lift and carry huge objects, fly around like dragonflies, and murder our families ...

Stacking an object on top of another object is a straightforward task for most people. But even the most complex robots struggle to handle more than one such task at a time. Stacking requires a range ...