The robots are powered by tiny microcomputers developed by David Blaauw and Dennis Sylvester, engineers at the University of ...

The newest frontier in robotics is almost invisible to the naked eye. Researchers have built a robot smaller than a grain of ...

The artificial fairy, which resembles a dandelion seed, is equipped with a soft actuator made of light-responsive liquid crystalline elastomer. Light can be used to change the shape of the robot and ...

The loss of pollinators, such as bees, is a huge challenge for global biodiversity and affects humanity by causing problems in food production. Researchers have now developed the first passively ...

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 ...

Robots are increasingly being used in industry, and in future they will need to adapt to unforeseen events and changes in their environment much more than today, including when they work with humans.

The development of stimuli-responsive polymers has brought about a wealth of material-related opportunities for next-generation small-scale, wirelessly controlled soft-bodied robots. For some time now ...