Together, the machines represent a long-awaited breakthrough in microscale robotics, a field that has struggled for decades to combine independent motion, sensing, and computing at extremely small ...

Humanoid robots may be part of our future, but human psychology and the uncanny valley may stand between them and world ...

Analog cameras are nowhere near as efficient as biological eyes. If you’ve ever handled a single-lens reflex (SLR) camera, especially if it had a zoom lens attached, you know how heavy they are, and ...

Cable cars are certainly handy for transporting cargo up steep mountain slopes, but what if you want to do the same sort of thing on a much smaller scale? Well, you could try using a tiny new ...

A team of researchers at the University of Washington has unveiled MilliMobile, a tiny self-driving robot that relies solely on ambient light or radio waves for power. This robot is equipped with a ...

A 301 mg soft robot jumps continuously under constant light without batteries or electronics, using snap-through buckling and self-shadowing to create an autonomous feedback loop.

The idea of robots, for me at least, always conjures sci-fi pictures of anthropomorphic beings walking around, talking, and acting very cold and unfeeling. But Apple’s recently published research ...

iRobot Corp. (NASDAQ:IRBT), a leader in delivering robotic technology-based solutions, has unveiled pre-production prototypes of the iRobot(R) 110 FirstLook(TM) unmanned ground vehicle (UGV). A small, ...

The results could shed light on the biomechanics of humans and animals as well as guiding the design of robots. "The pattern of a crescendo-decrescendo length distribution in the optimized tails, like ...