A kirigami-skinned soft robot powered by pneumatic muscles achieves crawling, steering and obstacle avoidance, advancing ...

“Where are the robots?” Nick Stedman asked me. “People have been promising the robotics revolution for over a decade now, but where are they? We don’t see them”. And he’s right. Outside of the Roomba ...

On September 15, an intriguing research achievement was published in Science Robotics, announcing the birth of a new type of biohybrid crawling robot. This robot can crawl at varying speeds under ...

It is thrown into the grass, either crawling forward or rotating and jumping; it is thrown into the water, quickly adjusting its posture, transforming into a fish; that day, it fell from the top of a ...

In limbless animals, propulsion across flat terrain depends on three synergistic elements—a highly deformable soft body, rhythmic axial contractions ...

Harvard computer science professor Radhika Nagpal is hoping to use a robotic toy she helped develop, Root, to teach coding languages like Python and Javascript in her undergraduate courses at Harvard.

The solution to many of America's infrastructure problems could lie in the hands of tech companies. Venture-backed HiBot USA, which recently advanced from "stealth" production mode, hopes to use ...

University of Toronto researchers have created a miniature robot that can crawl with inchworm-like motion. The underlying technology could one day transform industries from aviation to smart wearables ...

When you think of a robot, you probably imagine a metallic humanoid — and indeed, most robots today have hard, rigid bodies made of metal and plastic. But the robots of the future may actually be a ...

This isn’t quite how most of us imagined the future: You walk into your local, 24-hour robot-manufacturing store — a sort of latter-day Kinko’s — and describe the kind of robot you want. Maybe it’s a ...