Navy researchers explore the concept of operating two-pound "microrover" robots that are powered by long-running microbial fuel cells to explore planetary bodies in space. Martin LaMonica is a senior ...

A paper, published today (March 26) in Science Robotics, explains how the team integrated the oloid shape, and its unique rolling motion, into a new magnetic flexible endoscope (MFE). They equipped it ...

The Biomimetics Robotics team at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) recently took a number of its talented Mini Cheetah robots for some fun in the park. Depending on your outlook, the ...

The tiny critter is controlled using lasers. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Engineers have developed the world's tiniest ...

Tired of watching cool robotics projects online and feeling like they’re out of your reach? You’re not alone. Many enthusiasts face the challenge of turning their tech dreams into reality. But what if ...

Funded under the European Commission’s FET (Future and Emerging Technologies) initiative of the IST programme, MICRON set out to build a total of five to ten micro robots, just cubic centimetres in ...

New mini cheetah robot is springy and light on its feet, with a range of motion that rivals a champion gymnast. The four-legged powerpack can bend and swing its legs wide, enabling it to walk either ...

One of the most important courses in the curriculum for Northwestern Engineering's Master of Science in Robotics (MSR) program is Embedded Systems in Robotics. This project-based course is offered to ...

Industrial robots have been relegated to large warehouses and manufacturing plants, but now there is a Kickstarter campaign for a basic industrial arm for nontraditional markets. Niryo One is a ...

We've seen robots run, jump, perform somersaults — we've even seen a robot do parkour. But the scientists behind the "Mini Cheetah" robot say it's the first four-legged bot to do a backflip — and they ...

One of the many iconic moments in Terminator 2: Judgment Day was seeing the T-1000 briefly morph into a liquid to pass through the metal bars separating him from his target: a teenage John Connor. A ...

It doesn't float like a butterfly or sting like a bee, but it can hover like a jellyfish. A tiny flapping robot, developed by researchers at New York University, stays aloft by mimicking the pulsating ...