The machines are built from autonomous modules that can be snapped together in a variety of forms ...

Northwestern University engineers have developed the first modular robots with athletic intelligence. They can be combined and recombined in the wild, recover from injury and keep moving no matter ...

A new type of robotic hand developed at The University of Texas at Austin demonstrates such sensitive touch that it can grasp objects as fragile as a ...

Tiny robot swarms lift objects 45,000 times their weight using magnetic whirlpools, promising breakthrough medical and ...

Amy Lieberman, education editor at The Conversation U.S., spoke with Brendan Cantwell, a scholar of higher education at Michigan State University, to understand how the Trump administration is ...

Shahin Vassigh works in the emerging field of environmental robotics to increase the resilience of the built environment.

U.S. tap water is generally safe and high quality. But that doesn’t mean every glass tastes the same, or that every building’s plumbing delivers identical water to the faucet. That uncertainty has ...

Canopii's robotic farms can autonomously grow 40,000 pounds of herbs and leafy greens a year while being the size of a basketball court.

Humanoid robots are no longer hiding in research labs somewhere. These days, they are stepping into public spaces, and they are starting to look alarmingly human. A Shanghai startup has now taken that ...

A full-size humanoid robot just ran faster than most people will ever sprint. Chinese robotics firm MirrorMe Technology has unveiled Bolt, a humanoid robot that reached a top speed of 22 miles per ...

EngineAI, the Chinese company known for its humanoid fighting robot T800 — which made headlines for kicking the company's CEO — has reportedly deployed a new "Terminator"-like robot to patrol the ...

Robots come in all shapes and sizes. You can buy immobile handheld robots at stores like Costco, and farmers in China employ tractor-like robots to tend fields of crops. However, the pinnacle of robot ...