Humans place a lot of stock in overcoming nature. It's the core of our identity: We rose above the daily scramble for survival, formed society, created art and leisure and religion. By contrast, the ...

Climbing robots represent a rapidly evolving field in robotics, offering innovative solutions for tasks that are often hazardous, labour‐intensive or inaccessible for humans. These systems utilise ...

Imagine a swarm of tiny robots, each about the size of the palm of your hand, spreading out over a wildfire-ravaged community ...

A team of roboticists at the Beijing Institute of Technology, working with a pair of colleagues from the Technical University of Munich, has created a new kind of rat robot—one that was designed to ...

Suspended on a cable fixed between two trees in front of the Engineering Gateway building on UC Irvine’s campus hangs the RaccoonBot. And well, he’s just adorable. “The ‘cute factor’ wasn’t just a ...

Just like bees, the individual robots in this simulation have no master plan. Simply by responding to local cues, they are able to construct honeycomb-like structures. The method could presage a new ...

The Solana Beach School District (SBSD) and the Solana Beach Schools Foundation(SBSF) co-hosted Discovery Fest 2025 on May 17 at Solana Pacific School. This year’s theme, “Wild Robot Meets Nature’s ...

By using one physical principle—magnetism—to drive both movement and power, the team created a robot that is more efficient, ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - People use a lot of words to describe the reviled cockroach: disgusting, ugly, sneaky and repulsive, to name a few. But it may be time to add a surprising new one: inspirational ...