It took nature millions of years to create intelligent, adaptive species. Researchers at Northwestern University in Illinois ...

Modular robots are easily expandable, know when they're upside down or stuck, and can march forward across all kinds of ...

We humans have mastered fire, split the atom, and shot ourselves into space. We've built machines that can outthink us and tools that can cook us lunch or cut open our chests to perform life-saving ...

What is it about a cheetah's build that enables it to run so fast? What gives the wolf its exceptional endurance? While these questions can be partly answered through animal experiments, many ...

The just-issued World Robotics Report announced an all-time high of 517,385 new industrial robots installed in 2021 in factories around the world, representing 31% year-on-year growth. That brought ...

Why can’t a robot do the dishes? Well, it can, but maybe not as well or as cheaply as we’d hoped. More than once, I have started a robotics article with an appeal to the Jetsons tv show of the late ...

Different insects flap their wings in different manners. Understanding the variations between these modes of flight may help scientists design better and more efficient flying robots in the future.

A team of scientists from the University of Michigan has developed the robot “The Robot of Theseus,” or TROT for short, which is suitable for simulating quadrupedal animals to better understand their ...