Cornell engineers have developed a revolutionary new robot gripper that can teach itself to pick up all sorts of oddly shaped objects, an ability most autonomous robots lack. The universal jamming ...

Researchers at a Chinese university have built a soft, human-inspired robot that can physically grow and shrink on command, mimicking the way human bones elongate during development. The robot, called ...

If a robot is trying to traverse rugged, irregular terrain, it's limited by having just one body shape. The Tetraflex robot was designed with this fact in mind, as it can change shape to adopt ...

Researchers at the University of Michigan have developed a modular, open-source robot that can ...

(Nanowerk News) A team at the University of Bristol and based at the Bristol Robotics Laboratory have built a tetrahedron shaped robot with flexible piping known as Tetraflex that can move through ...

Advances in motor design have allowed different types of robots to both specialize for industrial functions and converge in precision.

Samsung's Ballie, a ball-shaped robot that the company's been working on for five years, is finally coming to market. The company originally announced Ballie in 2020, and displayed a redesigned ...

Picture a robot capable of changing its shape on demand, squishing, bending, or stretching to perform various tasks like navigating tight spaces or retrieving objects. While this may sound like ...

(Nanowerk Spotlight) The next generation of robots may not look anything like the rigid, mechanical machines we’re used to. Instead, imagine a robot that moves more like an octopus or a human hand, ...

The cube-shaped robots, known as M-Blocks have no external moving parts, just flat surfaces, and crawl, spin and stack to create different structures. The MIT-developed robots use magnets to perform ...