They run on light and are the world’s smallest, fully programmable, autonomous devices ...

Copying human expressions is super-difficult, but scientists used hours of YouTube videos to teach a robot how humans move ...

Scientists in Japan have made a robot face covered in living, self-healing skin that can smile in a demonstration of a new technique researchers believe could help pave the way for lifelike biohybrid ...

Roboticists have built the world’s smallest autonomous robot, capable of making decisions, moving independently and surviving for months. The microscopic bot is smaller than a grain of salt and costs ...

A brand-new engineering approach at Carnegie Mellon University is creating “designer” biological robots using human lung cells. Known as AggreBots, these microscale living machines may one day ...

It’s a bizarre sight: With a short burst of light, a sponge-shaped robot scoots across a tiled surface. Flipped on its back, it repeatedly twitches as if doing sit-ups. By tinkering with the light’s ...

Dr. Angelica Lim, an associate professor of computing science at Simon Fraser University, leads a team that is trying to make ...

A scientist has explained why robots still struggle to pick tomatoes. Labor shortages in agriculture are driving growing ...

In the unforgiving polar wilderness, scientists go to great lengths to safeguard the devices that gather precious data.

Robots that can think and move are no longer confined to factory floors or humanoid prototypes. Researchers have now shrunk ...

Scientists create robot the size of a grain of salt that can dance and think - Researchers say the record-breaking robot ‘opens the door to a whole new future for robotics’ ...