NASA has also been working on autonomous rovers that can explore and excavate on the Moon with minimal human direction. And ...

Robotics Competitions Are Boosting STEM Enrollment Amid Declining Science Scores As standardized test results show a downturn in science scores ...

An international team has explored how in future aerial robots could process construction materials precisely in the air -- an approach with great potential for difficult-to-access locations or work ...

DNA robots are emerging as tiny programmable machines that could one day deliver drugs, hunt viruses, and build ...

As most students at Coral Academy of Science’s Cadence campus left school Tuesday, a group of seven stayed behind, eager to ...

An egg-cracking beam relies on a hyperelastic torque reversal mechanism similar to that used by mantis shrimp and jumping fleas. Credit: Seoul National University. We usually think of robots as being ...

Researchers at Princeton University have built a swarm of interconnected mini-robots that “bloom” like flowers in response to changing light levels in an office. According to their new paper published ...

Most robot headlines follow a familiar script: a machine masters one narrow trick in a controlled lab, then comes the bold promise that everything is about to change. I usually tune those stories out.

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