Imagine a device that consists of five tiny fundamental components that could be assembled and modified to create numerous tiny devices. Pretty cool, huh? A while back, MIT Professor Neil Gershenfeld was mulling over the fact that all…

Imagine a future where fleets of autonomous boats cruise canals to transport goods and people, collect trash, or self-assemble into floating stages and bridges. That's what the city of Amsterdam envisions. In order to make it happen, MIT…

Bots are used extensively now in precision agriculture, environmental monitoring, infrastructure maintenance and certain security applications. Since all these uses require long-term, in-field placements, slow and energy efficient data…

In a fun example of life imitating art, researchers at the University of California, Berkeley – about an hour away from George Lucas’ famed Skywalker Ranch – have developed an agile robot that resembles a small Star Wars Imperial Walker.…

Living organisms’ ability to change shapes to perform specific actions was the inspiration for researchers at City University of Hong Kong and the Thayer School to develop a robot that swims through the bloodstream with a light-controlled…

While it’s not likely robots will take over the world any time soon, vision guided robotics software continues to gain market share in North America. The vision guided robotics (VGR) market is expected to grow by 14.05% from 2019 to…

The tiny robot Cozmo had its moment in the limelight, but in spite of raising more than $200 million, tech startup Anki – maker of the Cozmo robot - couldn’t find funding for its next stage of growth. The robotics developer announced Monday…

Most people dread dental cleanings; the dentist or oral hygienist uses mechanical tools to – sometimes painfully – scrape plaque from your teeth. But what if a small swarm of micro-robots could, instead, remove plaque build-up…

Researchers from the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) have developed a new and improved snake-inspired soft robot that is faster and more precise than its predecessor. The robot is made using…

Industries as diverse as automotive manufacturing and retailing have invested in robotic workforces to do much of the heavy lifting and scanning tasks at which they excel. But robots deal, for the most part, with rigid objects that need to…