When you picture a robot, chances are you’re thinking of gleaming metal parts working together. That’s not too far off, ...

It’s a bizarre sight: With a short burst of light, a sponge-shaped robot scoots across a tiled surface. Flipped on its back, it repeatedly twitches as if doing sit-ups. By tinkering with the light’s ...

Researchers have created a class of robots made from thin sheets of material that can snap into hundreds of stable shapes – ...

Scientists make robots that can walk straight out of the printers that created them - Researchers said the new devices are a ‘game-changer’ ...

Developed by a team led by researchers from North Carolina State University, these "metabots" are capable of moving around a ...

Inspired by Marvel’s Venom, a new soft robot made of electro-morphing gel bends, stretches, and shapeshifts with ease.

A brand-new engineering approach to generate "designer" biological robots using human lung cells is underway in Carnegie Mellon University's Ren lab. Referred to as AggreBots, these microscale living ...

Imagine that there's another oil spill along the lines of BP-in-the-Gulf. Imagine that our relief work following the disaster could be waged not just with human effort, but with technological ability ...

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