As I stick Mirumi onto my backpack, I think to myself, Nothing has changed in a decade. This is the latest consumer bot, the inheritor of a long history of Japanese robots whose purpose is to improve ...

Waymo, the US driverless car firm, said it hopes to be operating a robotaxi service in London as soon as September this year.

Freeze-dried hydrogel powders sprayed onto wet surfaces merge into functional coatings in under five seconds, enabling rapid ...

The humanoid robot GrowHR can change its size via air-filled legs. Due to the air chambers, it can also walk on water.

Abstract: While soft-shelled spherical robots offer promising mobility and robustness for planetary exploration, large-scale, mission-capable robots present several design challenges. This letter ...

When filmmakers slipped a robot crab into a real crab aggregation, they expected curiosity. What they captured instead was a ...

McGill engineers created graphene oxide origami materials that move, sense motion, and reshape themselves for soft robots.

Robots, equipped with cameras and disguised as animals, were deployed in the BBC TV series Spies in the Ocean to capture surprising behaviour ...

EPFL's robotic appendage features fingers that bend both ways and is designed to retrieve objects from spaces too hazardous ...

Researchers at Princeton University have built a swarm of interconnected mini-robots that “bloom” like flowers in response to ...

Nature’s most dazzling colors can be strangely rare. Walk through a park or forest and you see greens, yellows and reds that ...

For years, humanoid robots at CES felt like carefully controlled previews of a distant ...