A newly developed vine-like robot can grow across long distances without moving its whole body. It could prove useful in search and rescue operations and medical applications. Imagine rescuers ...

There is a lot of buzz about robots, and how they can help manufacturers address some of the challenges in today’s market. There is a lot of buzz these days in the manufacturing sector about robots — ...

Most robots have one means of locomotion—they might roll, fly, walk, or even swim. Rarely do they do more than one, though. Engineers at Caltech's Center for Autonomous Systems and Technologies (CAST) ...

A brand-new engineering approach at Carnegie Mellon University is creating “designer” biological robots using human lung cells. Known as AggreBots, these microscale living machines may one day ...

Biomimicry, the concept of modellng systems found in nature to solve complex problems, is popular among roboticists. But while the robots that result from it can gain the strengths of particular forms ...

A small drone takes a test flight through a space filled with randomly placed cardboard cylinders acting as stand-ins for trees, people or structures. The algorithm controlling the drone has been ...

Amazon might soon have more robots than human workers. Amazon now has 1 million robots operating across its warehouses worldwide. The company began testing robots at its facilities in 2012, starting ...