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 ...

Engineers at Georgia Tech have built a soft robot that can jump as high as a basketball hoop—without using legs. The 5-inch ...

Inspired by the movements of a tiny parasitic worm, Georgia Tech engineers have created a 5-inch soft robot that can jump as ...

The invention is a metamaterial, which is a material engineered to feature new and unusual properties that depend on the material's physical structure rather than its chemical composition. In this ...

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

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 ...

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

“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 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 ...

One robot fell at the starting line and lay flat for a few minutes before getting up and taking off. Another crashed into a ...

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 ...