Mori3's triangular, modular design allows it to fuse with its companions, and could one day make it into space. By Andrew Paul Published Jun 13, 2023 10:00 AM EDT Get the Popular Science daily ...

Want to play your favorite video game? Instead of watching characters move around on a computer monitor, why not let them run around your house? This is the vision of the future for Seth Goldstein, an ...

Engineers at Switzerland's Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) have unveiled a groundbreaking development in robotics: shapeshifting, 2D triangular robots that can transform into virtually ...

“Every block of expanded polystyrene foam has a statue inside it and it is the task of the dual-arm hot wire-wielding robot to discover it.” — [Michelangelo], probably. But hot-wire cutters can’t do ...

Researchers from North Carolina State University have demonstrated miniature soft hydraulic actuators that can be used to control the deformation and motion of soft robots that are less than a ...

The Grade 5 maths class of Crossroads School got into shape recently when they built robots using all the new shapes they had learnt about in class. Read more: Crossroads breaks ground on middle ...

'Smarticles' could be key to new locomotion technique. Researchers have taken a new approach to developing robots—using smaller robots known as “smarticles” to unlock the principles of a potentially ...

Able to undergo repeated compressions without losing their shape, woven materials could form robots, exoskeletons, car parts, ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – The world’s elderly population is booming. The number of older people — those age 60 years or older — is expected to more than double by 2050 and is growing faster than all ...