Fidget poppers are an example of "bistability," as the popped circles rest in one of two stable states. Purdue University researchers have taken this idea to its extreme, building robots that can be ...

As the old saying goes, when the only tool you have is a 6 DOF industrial robotic arm, every problem looks like an opportunity to make it serve up adult beverages. [benkokes] found himself in this ...

Robot vacuums create detailed digital maps of your home that manufacturers often upload to cloud servers, raising privacy concerns about spatial data sharing.

A brand-new engineering approach at Carnegie Mellon University is creating “designer” biological robots using human lung ...