At only 16 inches wide and 27 inches long, iRobot Corporation’s PackBot Explorer can enter tunnels, sewers and collapsed structures. However, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is now ...

What if a small army of forward operating robots were able to detect an upcoming river gap and then ... without requiring human intervention -- autonomously mesh together into a bridge-like structure ...

From mountain goats that run up near-vertical rock faces to armadillos that roll into a protective ball, animals have evolved ...

Most robots are designed for a specific job, and aren’t very adaptable. But engineers at Virginia Tech have now developed a soft robot that can morph into a range of shapes, such as driving, flying or ...

When you need a model for how to make something that flies, there’s no need to look to science fiction. Nature’s got plenty of examples. A pretty good one? Birds. Flying is kind of their thing (for ...

A soft electroactive gel enables untethered robots to deform, grip, and move using only external electric fields, eliminating the need for internal wiring or circuitry. (Nanowerk Spotlight) The ...

DAEJEON, South Korea (Reuters) - Imagine a wheelchair equipped with wheels flexible enough to navigate all manner of obstacles from kerbs to humps and even staircases. Or perhaps an unmanned delivery ...