A robot may function like a human, but it won't die like one. Italian scientists, however, are developing "smart materials" that will pave the way for robots to decompose like the human body once they ...

Fluid robot motion is the result of design choices among five options including pneumatics and strain wave gears.

Multi-tasking robots equipped with artificial intelligence will change the world. Mankind has to be ready to get the best out ...

A new material being researched could make shape-shifting robots real, but let’s hope they aren’t as violent as the Transformers from the movies. Researchers have developed a flexible material that ...

Researchers at UC Santa Barbara and TU Dresden are pioneering a new approach to robotics by creating a collective of small robots that function like a smart material. According to Matthew Devlin, a ...

"Robot" made of shape-shifting matter liquefies to escape jail By Michael Irving January 30, 2023 A humanoid "robot" made of a phase-change material shifts from solid and liquid to escape jail, in ...

The rapid growth of e-commerce and its need for an always-on supply chain means that manufacturers are having to rethink the way they move materials to and from stock and around the factory floor.

Earlier this year, two-layer solar cells broke records with 33 percent efficiency. The cells are made of a combination of silicon and a material called a perovskite. However, these tandem solar cells ...

MANHASSET, N.Y. &#151 The International Society for Optical Engineering (SPIE) will sponsor what it claims is the first-ever armwrestling match between a futuristic robotic arm and a human ...