A team led by Northwestern Engineering researchers has developed the first artificial intelligence (AI) to date that can intelligently design robots from scratch. To test the new AI, the researchers ...

Robots are super interesting, but you probably shouldn’t start learning about them with a full-sized industrial SCARA arm or anything. Better to learn with something smaller and simpler to understand.

When a robot company is founded by graduates from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, you can bet they’ll create some innovative products. iRobot, famed for the Roomba robo-vac, is arguably the ...

MEVITA's design makes it both sturdy and easy to build by using a minimal number of parts that can all be found and bought ...

Internals of 3D printed “print and fold” robot. [Image source: MIT CSAIL] Robot design traditionally separates the body geometry from the mechanics of the gait, but they both have a profound effect ...

Demonstration of Tactigon's system to teach movements to a robot without having to program it. — © AFP Demonstration of Tactigon's system to teach movements to a ...

BIG NEWS TONIGHT AT THE UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN A TEAM OF RESEARCHERS DEVELOPED A SMALL ROBOT THAT GOES INSIDE A PATIENT’S BODY TO PERFORM SURGERY CLINICAL TRIALS ARE SET TO START ON CAMPUS ...

The headline act is Narwal Flow, a low-profile, all-in-one robot that pairs powerful suction with a track-based mopping ...

Since the 1980s, the design and synthesis of molecular machines has been identified as a grand challenge for molecular engineering. Robots are an important type of molecular machine that automatically ...