On a dusty test site in Australia, a spider-like robot is quietly rewriting the rules of construction, extruding walls in looping arcs instead of stacking bricks by hand. The same technology that lets ...

Australia, famously, is home to some of the most formidable wildlife on Earth, and its arachnid population is particularly legendary. From the huntsman to the orb-weaver, there are some extraordinary ...

Nearly half a century after NASA engineers first sketched a machine that could spin massive structures in orbit like a spider building a web, Chinese researchers are pursuing their own version of the ...

Insight: Trump’s crackdown on China-linked solar firms stalls U.S. factory boom Top solar companies, banks and insurers have stopped doing business with at least a half dozen recently built U.S. panel ...

Its newly launched spider robot can carry out ultrasonic inspections of welds 30 centimetres thick three times faster than previous methods, Russia’s Rosatom has said. (Image: Rosatom) The robotic ...