(A) The structure of the robot. (a) The robot includes the piezoelectric ceramics, metal body, power source, and control system. (b) The arrangement and structure of piezoelectric ceramics. (B) Signal ...

Based on a study of both hatchling sea turtles and "FlipperBot" -- a robot with flippers -- researchers have learned principles for how both robots and turtles move on granular surfaces such as sand.

A layer of heat-shrinking polymer makes the robot self-construct Researchers in the US have developed self-folding robots that are able to take shape and crawl without human intervention. The robots ...

Athletes jumping off a diving board. A duck circling a pond. Planets rotating in space. What do all these things have in common? They—or at least, their robotic representations—are products of a ...

Dr. Lydia E. Kavraki’s list of accomplishments, accolades, and titles is almost too much to process—the computer scientist is currently the Noah Harding Professor of Computer Science and ...

Researchers in the US have developed self-folding robots that are able to take shape and crawl without human intervention. The robots are inspired by the ancient Japanese art of origami, external.