Robots need power to do anything, just like us. Think about it – without energy, even the most complex machine is just a pile ...

When we watched the first Transformers movie, most of us wanted our toasters and washing machines to turn into cool robots. Now, MIT has developed a set of self-assembling robot blocks that can ...

Xiaomi is producing a plastic toy robot that you can assemble into different forms, and control with an app. Called the Toy Block, the coding toy appears to rely on Lego-like pieces. The kit will come ...

A new robotics breakthrough could revolutionalize how we build everything from airplanes to bridges and even massive superstructures. A team of researchers at the Massachusettes Institute of ...

Brenna D. Argall and EECS students Alex Broad (PhD, CS), Pascal Egli (masters, visiting student from ETH), Ahmetcan Erdogan (postdoc, PMR), Deepak Gopinath (PhD, ME), Siddarth Jain (PhD, CS), Mahdieh ...

BOSTON – Dozens of robots descended on Boston this weekend, providing a chance for children and adults to get a glimpse of the future. The technology was on display during the MassRobotics Robot Block ...

That was the question Nick Morales (MSR '23) asked himself in April when he and his classmates from Northwestern Engineering's Master of Science in Robotics (MSR) program presented their robotics ...

The Griffin Museum of Science and Industry (MSI) hosted its annual Robot Block Party on April 4 and 5 in celebration of National Robotics Week. Graduate students from the University of Chicago, ...

No robot can reproduce the way that algal cells, begonias, and people can. However, an automaton that’s little more than a stack of blocks has shown that it, too, can make more of its own kind.

CHICAGO — There are eight teams from local universities showing off their work at the Museum of Science and Industry’s annual Robot Block Party. This week marks National Robotics Week and the Museum ...