In 2020, Néstor O. Pérez-Arancibia, an associate professor of engineering at Washington State University (WSU), developed a tiny, autonomous robot beetle capable of using combusting methanol to roam ...

A kirigami-skinned soft robot powered by pneumatic muscles achieves crawling, steering and obstacle avoidance, advancing ...

New research details how origami structures and bio-inspired design can be used to create a crawling robot. New research from a team of University of Illinois Mechanical Science and engineering ...

Biological systems have inspired the development of next-generation soft robotic systems with diverse motions and functions. Such versatility in soft robots—in terms of rapid and efficient ...

Rising Sprawl-Tuned Autonomous Robot (RSTAR), which was introduced at the International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2018) in Brisbane, Australia, is the name of an innovative robot ...

What's the difference between a Monster Truck and a baby? Monster trucks don't wear diapers. Otherwise, put a Monster Truck on a dirt path and a baby on a carpet, and both will stir up a cloud of dirt ...

It’s a bizarre sight: With a short burst of light, a sponge-shaped robot scoots across a tiled surface. Flipped on its back, it repeatedly twitches as if doing sit-ups. By tinkering with the light’s ...

Agile robots could certainly come in handy for tasks such as locating victims at disaster sites, which is why we've seen ones that hop, sidewind and "swim" across uneven terrain. One of the latest, ...

Machines already think faster than we can with our squishy brains. But moving around is still a tough one for robots. Some machines can roll, walk, and even run, though they need a lot of power and ...

A robot infant covered in aluminum tape is shown crawling on a piece of carpet. A robot infant covered in aluminum tape is shown crawling on a piece of carpet. Credit: Purdue University College of ...