Say you’re a soldier sent on a mission into hostile territory. You’d like to have a drone to keep an eye out for ambushes. Maybe there’s one on hand, but it’s not quite right for the job. Or maybe ...

University of California, Berkeley, has unveiled a new open-source, budget-friendly and customizable humanoid robot called Berkeley Humanoid Lite. The robot has been designed to make robotics research ...

Printable robots — those that can be assembled from parts produced by 3-D printers — have long been a topic of research in the lab of Daniela Rus, the Andrew and Erna Viterbi Professor of Electrical ...

While Intel is working on robots you can print and assemble on your own, a group of researchers is working out how to create 3D printed robot parts that could fold themselves into a full robot figure ...

MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab (CSAIL) has created a method for 3D printing hydraulically-powered robot parts that require no assembly. That’s right — we can now 3D print ...

Flat-pack furniture made IKEA a global powerhouse, and the same principles may help create a new generation of robots. Interactive Robogami is a project from MIT that lets users create ambulatory ...

Could a hobbyist one day build a walking, talking humanoid robot from a kit -- same as airplane models and ships in a bottle? Intel hopes to offer that option to robot enthusiasts everywhere by the ...

Like a live animal baby, MIT’s latest robot can be pulled whole from its womb, be given a smack on the butt, and then crawl off on its own–if you substitute “3-D printer” for “womb,” and “drop in a ...

Meet Plen2, an adorably cute humanoid robot that’s small enough to stand on your desk. This bot can bust a few moves, such as dancing, carrying small objects and even copying human movements (when ...