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

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

The newest generation of microrobots is so small that a single unit can perch on the ridge of a fingerprint and practically ...

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

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

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 – ...

A robot made of Lego can quickly perform an important step for creating machines made of DNA. “This started as a final project in an undergraduate lab course,” says Rizal Hariadi at Arizona State ...

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 ...

Cornell scientists recently helped to build and study a new kind of robot - machines controlled using an edible mushroom one might expect to find attached to a tree in the forest, or on a plate in a ...