A robot observes its reflection in a mirror, learning its own morphology and kinematics for autonomous self-simulation. The process highlights the intersection of vision-based learning and robotics, ...

The future is now…and it’s tiny. In A Nutshell Researchers built autonomous robots just 210-340 micrometers wide, roughly the ...

Hands move constantly during conversation. They signal emotion, stress a point, and form full languages such as American Sign Language. Behind this everyday motion lies a complex challenge. Each human ...

Tiny robots smaller than a grain of rice can sense, think, and move on their own. They could one day fix tissue inside the human body.

Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania and University of Michigan have created the world’s smallest fully programmable ...

Each robot costs only a single penny to manufacture. The robots could help advance everything from nanotechnology ...

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. (Nanowerk Spotlight) The ...

Learn more about these tiny robots that can alter their surroundings and monitor our health.

There is also a dance studio, complete with a wood floor and large mirrors. Here scientists record the movements of human ...

(Nanowerk News) By watching their own motions with a camera, robots can teach themselves about the structure of their own bodies and how they move, a new study from researchers at Columbia Engineering ...