Many robots are controlled by robotic nervous systems in which sensors and actuators are connected to a central processing unit. However, in most cases the robotic nervous systems are mapped strictly ...

A robot to explore the unknown and automate tomorrow’s tasks and the ones after them needs to be extremely versatile. Ideally, it was capable of being any size, any shape, and any functionality, ...

Modular self-reconfigurable robotics encompasses systems in which individual robotic units can autonomously adjust their configuration to adapt to varying tasks and environmental conditions. These ...

Traditionally, when it comes to high-tech self-assembling microscopic structures for use in medicine delivery, and refined, delicate grippers for robotics, there’s been a dearth of effective, ...

Arduino enthusiasts and makers with access to a 3D printer might be interested in a new open-source self-reconfigurable modular robot that has been created and powered by an Arduino Nano development ...

The path toward humanoid robots capable of transforming themselves into trucks, dinosaurs, and airplanes is now a bit shorter, thanks to the invention of a modular robot that can alter its physical ...

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6aZbJS6LZbs&w=640&h=480] Looking at these reconfiguring robo-cubes, created by research scientists at MIT in the face of ...

The ancient Japanese paper-folding art of origami (“ori” meaning “folding,” and “kami” meaning “paper”) probably isn’t the first thing that comes to mind when you think about groundbreaking robot ...

Robots are going to have to work together if they want to destroy us, their soft, fallible masters. But the current paradigm of having a Skynet-like (or rather, Zerglike) overmind control a set of ...

European researchers have created robots which can work alone or merge together to form a new form of machine. The individual robots retain full motion control regardless of how they are grouped, so ...

This is possibly one of the coolest things we’ve seen in a while. John Romanishin, a research scientist at MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL), has prototyped modular ...