Ancient Romans had a massive advantage in everything they built thanks to this human powered machine that can multiply a ...

Using laser light instead of traditional mechanics, researchers have built micro-gears that can spin, shift direction, and even power tiny machines. These breakthroughs could soon lead to ...

LOWELL — The 8th Annual Lowell Kinetic Sculpture Race is a wrap after 15 teams tried, with varying degrees of success, to move their creative human-powered machines through the streets of downtown ...

The fictional human-powered machines that appear in the The Matrix trilogy are still far from reality — but maybe not that far. Last month, scientists at the Bristol Robotics Laboratory in the UK ...