A team of researchers at Cornell University has developed the world’s smallest walking robot. Designed to interact with visible light, the robot moves independently despite its tiny size. The team ...

Think of actuators as the robot’s muscles —the technology that enables humanoids to move. Actuators come in three types: ...

Researchers have created the smallest walking robot yet. Its mission: to be tiny enough to interact with waves of visible light and still move independently, so that it can maneuver to specific ...

Investors are pouring billions into companies pitching humanoid robots, but functional versions are decades away.

On September 10, 2025, in The Hague, Netherlands, @msmlo_ shared an amusing video capturing a walking robot in the city. In the video, the author films from a car while a humanoid-style robot is seen ...

Caltech and Abu Dhabi’s TII have unveiled X1, a groundbreaking robot that walks, flies, and drives — seamlessly switching ...

Researchers at Cornell have come up with a novel way to control a walking robot: with a mushroom. Cornell explained in a press release that these four-legged “biohybrid” robots were built by ...

A bipedal robot made from an artificial skeleton and biological muscle is able to walk and pivot when stimulated with electricity, allowing it to carry out finer movements than previous biohybrid ...

Professor Boyuan Chen poses with some of his 3D printed robots that were designed and built through his new platform called Text2Robot that allows people to simply tell a computer what kind of robot ...

Picture a robot controlled by micromotors so small and light that it suspends itself over water like a bug. With engineers at the University of Virginia, that’s now an achievable reality. With their ...