Living with robots could lead to plenty of societal improvements, but they also pose risks to how we socialize and co-exist ...

After submerging the robot in underwater tunnels designed to mimic swimming near the sea floor, their tests indicate that ...

Nature is, of course, the master engineer—been there, seen it, solved it. While we struggle to design buildings that don't ...

Researchers at Princeton University have built a swarm of interconnected mini-robots that “bloom” like flowers in response to ...

The robot can bend, grasp and carry in ways humans can’t, which could help it navigate spaces too confined for human arms.

Scientists have built microscopic, light-powered robots that can think, swim, and operate independently at the scale of ...

Humans pay enormous attention to lips during conversation, and robots have struggled badly to keep up. A new robot developed ...

A team from the University of Pennsylvania and the University of Michigan has built the tiniest programmable, self-driving ...

Scientists have created a robot that learns lip movements by watching humans rather than following preset rules. The ...

Biologists and engineers have joined forces to build a new robot bat that’s helping us understand how real bats use ...

Measuring just 200 by 300 by 50 micrometers — smaller than a grain of salt and roughly the size of a single-celled paramecium ...

A hopping, insect-sized robot can jump over gaps or obstacles, traverse rough, slippery, or slanted surfaces, and perform aerial acrobatic maneuvers, while using a fraction of the energy required for ...