It was the terrain itself that was the enemy.” That candid assessment from one Portuguese reforestation leader sparked one of ...

Can a six-legged machine be the key to restoring forests devastated by wildfire? The answer might just be yes in Portugal, ...

Boffins from Rice University in Texas have used a dead spider as an actuator at the end of a robot arm and created the field of "necrobotics" which literally means the dead could rise again as robots.

Researchers have developed an integrated fabrication process that for the very first time enables the design of soft robots on the millimeter scale with micrometer-scale features. To demonstrate the ...

Robot arms and grippers do important work every hour of every day. They’re used in production lines around the world, toiling virtually ceaselessly outside of their designated maintenance windows.

Scientists discovered robotic alien spiders from interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS on Earth's polar ice sheets in October 2025. In October 2025, a Facebook post (archived) about an unusual finding spread ...

AUSTIN, Texas — A six-legged robotic spider jointly developed by Nanyang Polytechnic of Singapore, Schmid Engineering AG and Analog Devices Inc. (ADI has been designed to support rescue operations.

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