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Aerospace engineering company Lockheed Martin Corp has created a small, spider-like robot that is designed to track down and repair leaks in the company’s massive Hybrid Airships. Lockheed Martin’s ...

The classic image of a robot is rigid and metallic, but if they're ever going to work alongside humans in the real world, they're going to need a softer touch. Harvard researchers have developed a new ...

A new programmable spider robot has been unveiled this week in the form of the Xpider which is small enough to fit in the palm of your hand and can be controlled by the integrated neural network.

Ez-Robot, a small company based in Calgary, Canada, is aiming to start a new "revolution" in robotics. The company's new Revolution line is a series of small, hobby-sized robots with modular parts, ...

A team of scientists has programmed an autonomous molecular "robot" made out of DNA to start, move, turn, and stop while following a DNA track. The development could ultimately lead to molecular ...

If you’re afraid of spiders, then you might find Siemens’s vision for future manufacturing lines a bit alarming. In a lab in Princeton, New Jersey, the company’s researchers are testing spider-like ...

Thanks to a NASA-funded project to use spider-like drones as in-space construction workers, the day of building a real-life Death Star could be approaching. SpiderFab, a technology developed by ...