Mechanical engineers at Duke University have developed solid building blocks whose mechanical properties can ...

Consider the marvelous physics of the human knee. The largest hinge joint in the body, it has two rounded bones held together ...

It looks like stretched-out plastic rotini. Or maybe extended fusilli. But no, the soft, clear noodle you see in the video above is not made of pasta, it’s actually a robot. Except, it has no motors, ...

Engineers at Harvard have developed a new method to design robotic joints that mimic ...

This may be the tiniest robot you’ve ever seen. Shaped like a peekytoe crab, it’s a half-millimeter across and it can crawl, jump, bend, and twist through tiny apertures. The edge of a coin provides ...

Massive manta rays and other pelagic ray species tend to hover near the ocean surface using a flapping motion. Benthic rays, ...

In a step toward robots that can learn on the fly like humans do, a new approach expands training data sets for robots that work with soft objects like ropes and fabrics, or in cluttered environments.