DARPA's tiny robot Olympics tests millimeter-scale machines in disaster response challenges, with untethered bots jumping, lifting, and navigating rubble.

Designing autonomous robots that collectively solve complex tasks requires innovations in both hardware and software. Inspired by the behavior of slime mold (Physarum polycephalum), which demonstrates ...

Fixing underground water pipes usually means digging up roads and sidewalks — a process that's disruptive and expensive. However, researchers at the University of Sheffield in the U.K. are working on ...

Springtails, small bugs often found crawling through leaf litter and garden soil, are expert jumpers. Inspired by these hopping hexapods, roboticists have made a walking, jumping robot that pushes the ...

One slithers. One crawls. Neither looks like much on their own. But together, they form a super team—one that might just change how we inspect the most complicated machines in the world. Kaushik ...

Researchers from Penn's ModLab are studying non-contact human-robot interaction. Credit: Chenyao Liu Asa Whitney Professor of Mechanical Engineering Mark Yim has completed the second phase of a ...

In January, Elizabethtown Gas completed a gas main repair in Port Elizabeth through an innovative method – advanced robotics. For the project, the South Jersey Industries subsidiary used a cast-iron ...

Energy services group GDES and technology company Alisys are developing an autonomous quadruped robot for decommissioning and waste management firm Enresa to support the decommissioning of the Santa ...