Soft robots that power themselves from their surroundings are moving from lab curiosity to strategic technology, promising ...

Underwater octopuses change their body color and texture in the blink of an eye to blend perfectly into their surroundings ...

A research team in South Korea has developed a soft robot named Octoid that can mimic the movement and behavior of an octopus ...

In 2011, President Donald Trump appeared to kiss Angela Martini — who competed in the 2010 Miss Universe pageant — on the ...

A robot may function like a human, but it won't die like one. Italian scientists, however, are developing "smart materials" that will pave the way for robots to decompose like the human body once they ...

Inspiration can come from just about anywhere. For Robert Shepherd, a roboticist at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, the source was a football injury 20 years ago, when he tore his anterior ...

ABERDEEN PROVING GROUND, Md.-- Scientists from the U.S. Army and MIT’s Center for Bits and Atoms created a new way to link materials with unique mechanical properties, opening up the possibility of ...

No longer content to release videos of humanoid robots doing backflips, Boston Dynamics this week unveiled something logistically incredible: a prototype of its new box-moving machine. Retailer A.S.

The quest to build better robots capable of completing more tasks is an important one, that could lead to humanity as a whole having a much easier time of it. Robots already manage some of the most ...

Earlier this year, two-layer solar cells broke records with 33 percent efficiency. The cells are made of a combination of silicon and a material called a perovskite. However, these tandem solar cells ...

"Robot" made of shape-shifting matter liquefies to escape jail By Michael Irving January 30, 2023 A humanoid "robot" made of a phase-change material shifts from solid and liquid to escape jail, in ...

Researchers at USC's Viterbi School of Engineering have developed a robot capable of identifying materials, thanks to a tactile sensor. The so-called BioTac sensor mimics the human finger, with ...