Scientists in Japan have grafted living human skin onto the face of a humanoid robot in an effort to give machines a more lifelike appearance. In a groundbreaking procedure, a team from the University ...

Scientists have been working for years to create robots powered by living muscle tissue. These biohybrid robots combine ...

Scientists in Japan are now looking to grow fingernails and develop sensory features after successfully growing skin around a robotic finger.Ales_Utovko/iStock / Getty Images Plus/Getty Images Robots ...

Ultra Shine supervisor Ramesh Shrestha stands beside robot Bob; young entrepreneurs in Halifax take advantage of the Common Good program; solar panels are just one example of "green" industries.

The soft, pink blob stares at the camera with glassy eyes — before pulling its face into a dimpled smile. While it might look like the stuff of nightmares, this tiny robot covered in living skin could ...

Scientists have created tiny living robots from human cells that can move around in a lab dish and may one day be able to help heal wounds or damaged tissue, according to a new study. A team at Tufts ...

You might have missed the debut of the Xenobots last year when the world was falling apart, but they made quite a splash in the science and tech community. These Pac-Man-shaped synthetic organisms ...

The discovery, while basic, has prompted excitement about new applications in everything from environmental cleanup to internal human medicine You can save this article by registering for free here.

Xenobots are "living robots" made up of frog cells, and can be programmed, in a way, by having a supercomputer design how their cells are arranged. Now, researchers have discovered that they've taught ...

Beside an airstrip on the outskirts of Ottawa a drone is buzzing overhead while a small, four-wheeled rover rolls along in the grass below. Both are robots, equipped with on-board cameras and ...

Magnetic soft robots deliver and release tens of millions of probiotic bacteria with timed control, disrupt tumor spheroids in vitro, and demonstrate a potential strategy for targeted cancer treatment ...

Robots are rapidly shifting from supporting characters in spaceflight to the central tools that could make long term life on the Moon possible. Instead of astronauts hauling regolith and assembling ...