Researchers at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL) have unveiled a novel robotic structure, the "trimmed helicoid," inspired by the movements of elephant trunks and octopus ...

Researchers announced on Science Robotics in December 2017Research paper, The limitation of the conventional humanoid robot is written as "it is designed based on conventional engineering, machinery, ...

Recently, the European Union funded the project PULSAR (Prototype of an Ultra Large Structure Assembly Robot) through the Space Robotic Technologies program within Horizon 2020. PULSAR aims to develop ...

Bad news if you want to move to the moon or Mars: housing is a little hard to come by. Fortunately, NASA (as always) is thinking ahead, and has just shown off a self-assembling robotic structure that ...

Robots which can play badminton, tackle chin-ups and even perform spine-curling crunches have been developed by Japanese scientists who mimicked human joints and bone structure for the first time to ...