Soft robots that run on air instead of electricity are starting to behave less like simple inflatable toys and more like ...

Robots that move, sense and even coordinate with one another usually bring to mind tangled wires, circuit boards and humming ...

Robots intended for complex natural environments face a familiar problem: rigid bodies and fixed-color surfaces make them ...

At the Soft Robotics Lab at ETH Zurich, the scene looks less like a traditional engineering workshop and more like a child’s ...

Inside a lab in Boston University’s College of Engineering, a robot arm drops small, plastic objects into a box placed perfectly on the floor to catch them as they fall. One by one, these tiny ...

In a joint advance from the University of Pennsylvania and the University of Michigan, engineers have designed the smallest fully programmable autonomous robots ever built – ...

Ensuring the structural safety of bridges, tunnels, construction machinery, and other critical infrastructure is essential for public safety, economic stability, and environmental protection.

In a lab experiment that sounds closer to science fiction than engineering, researchers have unveiled what they describe as ...

About a decade ago, researchers at CNRS were already discussing a robot modeled after a rat. The idea was to use such a machine as ...

A specialized training facility in China has taken on its first cohort of 'robot students'. Located in Hefei—capital of the eastern province of Anhui—this new 'robot school' is being used to teach ...