A small do-it-yourself desk robot named Mo-chan has been shared with makers, demonstrating how individuals can build simple ...

Tiny flying robots have always faced a brutal trade-off between agility and battery life, burning through power just to stay ...

Researchers have created microscopic robots so small they’re barely visible, yet smart enough to sense, decide, and move completely on their own. Powered by light and equipped with tiny computers, the ...

From R2-D2 to Optimus Prime, Wall-E to The Iron Giant, robots have long captured our collective imaginations. In today’s world, their influence is far less limited to fictional settings; robotics are ...

Asa Whitney Professor of Mechanical Engineering Mark Yim has completed the second phase of a human-robot interaction research project at Penn’s ModLab. The project primarily aims to develop Quori, a ...

Inside a UNC-Chapel Hill Science lab sits an autonomous robot. Imagine a machine like a Roomba, but with an arm, so it can pick up things like a dirty sock off the floor. A group of researchers from ...

Earlier this year, a boxy, knee-high robot rolled past a handful of students at the University of California, Berkeley, campus, loaded with plush toy doughnuts and Yeti mugs. Moving at about three ...

The good news? Robots are no longer reserved for the giant OEMs with endless floor space and million-dollar budgets. Compact, ...

It’s the metal, plastic, and wires that give the robot its shape and allow it to move around. Engineers in this field design ...