Drawing inspiration from the folding art of origami, Princeton University engineers created a structure that blurs the lines ...

In an experiment reminiscent of the "Transformers" movie franchise, engineers at Princeton University have created a type of ...

Inspired by the movements of a tiny parasitic worm, engineers have created a 5-inch soft robot that can jump as high as a basketball hoop. Their device, a silicone rod with a carbon-fiber spine, can ...

EPFL researchers have developed a robot that can drive, roll, and even paddle through water to reach its destination.

In Beijing, humanoid robots competed in a half-marathon alongside humans. Twenty-one robots from Chinese firms participated.

A Chinese research team has developed the world’s smallest and lightest wireless amphibious robot, capable of transforming ...

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 ...

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"Using the Lego-inspired design strategy, we constructed an untethered terrestrial-aerial micro-robot capable of agile aerial ...

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 ...

“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 ...