Researchers have created a tiny, shape-shifting robot that swims, crawls, and glides freely in the deep sea. Developed by a team at the Beihang University in China, the robot operated at a depth ...

Smart materials can change their shape or form in response to external stimuli, making them indispensable for many ...

Each sheet essentially changes the shape of the robot and enhances the tiny bot's capabilities. One turns the robot into a very small boat, another makes it into a sort of wheel barrel ...

The super-lightweight design avoids kicking up clouds of sediment, as larger robots tend to. The battery-powered bot is fitted with "shape-memory" springs, which lets is switch between the two ...

Unveiled at GDC 2025, the shape-shifting design offers a few different ... I’m expecting this wee little robot to keep my palms toasty. Neither pricing information nor a release date have ...

The system uses evolutionary algorithms and reinforcement learning to co-optimize the robot's shape, movement abilities and ...

“Every block of expanded polystyrene foam has a statue inside it and it is the task of the dual-arm hot wire-wielding robot to discover it.” — [Michelangelo], probably. But hot-wire cutters ...

The world of automated farming may be an unglamorous one to those not invested in its attractions, but like the robots themselves that quietly get on in the background with tending crops ...

According to its press release, “Aquanaut is a multipurpose subsea robot which employs a patented shape-shifting transformation from an Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (AUV) to a Remotely Operated ...