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

What is it about a cheetah's build that enables it to run so fast? What gives the wolf its exceptional endurance? While these questions can be partly answered through animal experiments, many ...

POUGHKEEPSIE, N.Y. -- Robots wag their tail fins and bob along like bathtub toys in a pool at a Vassar College lab. Their actions are dictated by microprocessors housed in plastic containers, the sort ...

With the TROT robot, researchers can compare evolutionary changes in quadrupeds. The robot is open source and can be ...

Why can’t a robot do the dishes? Well, it can, but maybe not as well or as cheaply as we’d hoped. More than once, I have started a robotics article with an appeal to the Jetsons tv show of the late ...

I personally am very excited about the prospects brought about by the evolution of robots and artificial intelligence. It is, in my view, the natural path any advanced civilization should follow as it ...