Researchers at UC Santa Barbara and TU Dresden are pioneering a new approach to robotics by creating a collective of small robots that function like a smart material. According to Matthew Devlin, a ...

Whether they’re delivering food or folding your laundry, consumer-facing robots are increasingly being designed to be more ...

A brand-new engineering approach at Carnegie Mellon University is creating “designer” biological robots using human lung cells. Known as AggreBots, these microscale living machines may one day ...

It’s the face of the future. A team of scientists unveiled a robot face covered with a delicate layer of living skin that heals itself and crinkles into a smile in hopes of developing more human-like ...

Scientists have discovered how to build robots out of rice paper, opening up brand new possibilities for robotic applications. A team from the University of Bristol discovered that the same ingredient ...

Rice becomes weaker when compressed quickly, while staying stronger under slow pressure—a discovery enabling scientists to design a new material that could be used to build "soft" robots that change ...

A team of researchers at the University of Tokyo successfully bound engineered skin tissue onto the face of a humanoid robot Marina Watts is a Digital Writer, Music at PEOPLE. She has been working at ...

When we think about robots, we think about complex electronic devices. We’re conditioned to think about robots as sophisticated machines controlled by intricate programming and powered by advanced ...

Many accused Elon Musk of being no longer present at Tesla, so he called an "all-hands" meeting with Tesla employees to prove the opposite. Musk presented a bright future where humans are no longer ...

Robots are famous in pop culture. From Rosie on “The Jetsons” to Wall-E from “Wall-E”, they are a fixture in storying telling that dates back decades. This weekend people can meet Roz in theaters when ...