Humanoid robots may be part of our future, but human psychology and the uncanny valley may stand between them and world ...

Tokyo engineers unveil a dog-inspired robot that uses air-powered muscles to study how animals absorb impact while running ...

A new experiment shows snail-inspired swarm robots stacking and adapting to move objects across gaps without fixed structures.

Overview Robotics has become one of the most transformative fields in recent times, shaping work, manufacturing, healthcare, ...

I was watching kite surfers harness the wind to carve sweeping arcs and achieve effortless lifts…Yet, I realized nature had already perfected this art long before us.”How do tumbleweeds work? The ...

Researchers develop salt-sized autonomous robots that can swim, sense temperature, and think independently, opening new ...

The robots are both powered and programmed by light pulses, and each has their own unique identifier for individualized ...

Inspired by kirigami, a type of Japanese paper art, researchers have created a new material that transforms from a grid into ...

MIT researchers have developed a new method for designing 3D structures that can be transformed from a flat configuration ...

In some sense, Mr. Brooks has only himself to blame. The current humanoid craze is “kind of his fault,” said Anthony Jules, ...

The world’s smallest fully programmable, autonomous robots have debuted at the University of Pennsylvania, sporting a brain ...

Microscale swimming bots take in sensory information, process it and carry out tasks, opening new possibilities in ...