With all the doom and gloom over the inevitable robot apocalypse, we’ve at least been able to take solace in the fact that we’ll see them coming—until today. Researchers from Northwestern University ...

Small robots can be found at all levels from STEM toys for kids all the way through to complex hacker projects. Somewhere along that line between easy enough for anyone to build and interesting enough ...

Springtails, small bugs often found crawling through leaf litter and garden soil, are expert jumpers. Inspired by these hopping hexapods, roboticists have made a walking, jumping robot that pushes the ...

Earlier this year, a boxy, knee-high robot rolled past a handful of students at the University of California, Berkeley, campus, loaded with plush toy doughnuts and Yeti mugs. Moving at about three ...

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. A new army of micro-robots just burst onto the scene. One of the ...

PULLMAN, Wash. — Two insect-like robots, a mini-bug and a water strider, developed at Washington State University, are the smallest, lightest and fastest fully functional micro-robots ever known to be ...

Cornell researchers have developed a pair of small robots powered by mycelium designed for use in agriculture and space exploration. The researchers, led by Anand Mishra, a professor at Cornell ...

SwitchBot might be best known for gadgets like the SwitchBot Curtain 3 and quirky SwitchBot Bot, but the company is quickly making a name for itself in the world of robot vacuums. Its catalog is ...

Editor’s Note: This is part of a series called Inside the Lab, which gives audiences a first-hand look at the research laboratories at the University of Chicago and the scholars who are tackling some ...

For years, researchers in artificial intelligence and robotics have been striving to develop versatile embodied intelligence or agents capable of performing tasks in the real world with the same ...