Hidden lava tunnels on the Moon and Mars could one day shelter human explorers, offering natural protection from radiation and space debris. A European research team has unveiled a bold new mission ...

The Columbia University researchers achieved the feat by allowing their robot, EMO, to study itself in a mirror. It learned ...

NEW YORK -- As the new robot called Sprout walks around a Manhattan office, nodding its rectangular head, lifting its windshield wiper-like “eyebrows” and offering to shake your hand with its grippers ...

Mechanical engineers at Duke University have demonstrated a proof-of-concept method for programming mechanical properties ...

Researchers at Princeton University have built a swarm of interconnected mini-robots that “bloom” like flowers in response to changing light levels in an office. According to their new paper published ...

Adding robots to therapy can help autistic children develop foundational social skills like taking turns, making eye contact, ...

Nature is, of course, the master engineer—been there, seen it, solved it. While we struggle to design buildings that don't ...

Here’s some nightmare fuel from the world of robotics: a robot arm with a six-fingered hand that can detach itself and crawl ...

Using robotic fins, researchers at the University of California, Riverside, have learned how stingrays ...

Peer review has met its match.

A European team has taken a bold step in space robotics with a new mission concept, published in Science Robotics, designed ...