Bacteria-scale robots that can run for months without human control are no longer a lab fantasy. Researchers have now built ...

Robots intended for complex natural environments face a familiar problem: rigid bodies and fixed-color surfaces make them ...

In a joint advance from the University of Pennsylvania and the University of Michigan, engineers have designed the smallest fully programmable autonomous robots ever built – ...

In a lab experiment that sounds closer to science fiction than engineering, researchers have unveiled what they describe as the world’s smallest fully programmable robot. Measuring just fractions of a ...

Read on to know how researchers develop a sensory skin that helps robots feel damage and pull away from harmful contact in ...

Inside a lab in Boston University’s College of Engineering, a robot arm drops small, plastic objects into a box placed perfectly on the floor to catch them as they fall. One by one, these tiny ...

About a decade ago, researchers at CNRS were already discussing a robot modeled after a rat. The idea was to use such a machine as ...