Columbia scientists built robots that can grow, heal, and adapt using “robot metabolism,” mimicking nature’s self-sustaining ...

Though Atlas was designed to resemble a person in other ways, its hands aren’t exactly one-to-one. Instead, company engineers ...

A small robot that can shape-shift and produce heat could incinerate cancer cells or stop bleeding from inside the body. It could also be used to ferry drugs directly to tumours or hard-to-reach ...

The ability to remotely control robots in real-time, also known as teleoperation, could be useful for a broad range of real-world applications. In recent years, some engineers have been trying to ...

Researchers at Tel Aviv University have developed a hybrid micro-robot, the size of a single biological cell (about 10 microns across), that can be controlled and navigated using two different ...

Imagine running on a cement footpath, and then suddenly through dry sand. Just to keep upright, you would have to slow down and change the way you run. In the same way, a walking robot would have to ...

Dyret is a four-legged quadruped robot able to adjust the length of its legs to adapt its body to the surface it's operating on. As it adjusts its body, it learns what works best in certain situations ...

Not long ago, for one reason or another, I made a statement here on autoevolution, essentially declaring that as long as AIs don't have physical bodies, there's nothing to be worried about. Well, ...

Researchers have developed a tiny, flexible robot that could crawl through earthquake rubble to locate survivors or travel inside the human body to deliver medicine. These soft robots, made from ...