A team led by the University of Oxford has developed a new class of soft robots that operate without electronics, motors, or ...

Quarantine is a word that has become all too familiar in recent years, but its origins are centuries old. Stemming from the ...

A robot searching for workers trapped in a partially collapsed mine shaft must rapidly generate a map of the scene and identify its location within ...

You may not remember it, but odds are you took a few tumbles during your toddler era. You weren't alone. Falling, after all, ...

When — not if — humans start competing against robots in combat sports, Wyoming is ready. The Wyoming Combat Sports Commission has already outlined ...

WPI researchers are enabling aerial robots, smaller than 100 mm and weighing less than 100 g, to navigate without relying on vision.

WPI's PeAR Bat uses ultrasonic echolocation like bats to navigate smoke and darkness for autonomous rescue missions ...

Humanoid robots capture the public imagination, and investors are backing them. That means a lot of reports will be incoming, ...

Columbia scientists built robots that can grow, heal, and adapt using “robot metabolism,” mimicking nature’s self-sustaining ...

Robotics experts are testing tiny drones that can be deployed in search and rescue missions even in dark, smoky or stormy ...

Scientists create microscopic DNA' flower robots' that can deliver drugs, heal wounds and even clean the planet. Researchers at the University of North Carolina have built what they call "DNA flowers, ...