Could the future of rescue missions and exploration lie in the hands—or rather, the flexible movements—of a swarm of ...

There's a common popular science demonstration involving "soap boats," in which liquid soap poured onto the surface of water creates a propulsive flow driven by gradients in surface tension. But it ...

A brand-new engineering approach to generate "designer" biological robots using human lung cells is underway in Carnegie ...

DARPA's tiny robot Olympics tests millimeter-scale machines in disaster response challenges, with untethered bots jumping, lifting, and navigating rubble.

Swarms of tiny robots guided by magnetic fields can coordinate to act like ants, from packing together to form a floating raft to lifting objects hundreds of times their weight. About the size of a ...

A tiny, soft, flexible robot that can crawl through earthquake rubble to find trapped victims or travel inside the human body to deliver medicine may seem like science fiction, but an international ...

Scientists from China and Hong Kong say they have created tiny robots that can help clear serious bacterial infections deep inside the sinuses, without the need for surgery or drugs. Published in ...

MIAMI – Noaa has five new helpers in the Atlantic as the statistical peak of hurricane season happens, even with the ongoing lull in activity. The extra data from five small uncrewed surface vehicles ...

A tiny AI-powered robot abducted 12 larger robots from a Shanghai robotics showroom. The security cam footage has since gone ...

Happy, sad, surprised, angry, neutral: These are the five emotions conveyed by Bartholomew, the tiny robot designed by researchers in the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences. Just taller than a ...

One slithers. One crawls. Neither looks like much on their own. But together, they form a super team—one that might just change how we inspect the most complicated machines in the world. Kaushik ...