Adding legs to robots that have minimal awareness of the environment around them can help the robots operate more effectively in difficult terrain, my colleagues and I found. We were inspired by ...

It took nature millions of years to create intelligent, adaptive species. Researchers at Northwestern University in Illinois ...

Sometimes a simple walk around the block can become a meaningful journey. “He loves to move. He does not like sitting in his chair,” said Tiffany Goodchild, mother of 6-year-old Karter Goodchild from ...

Each unit has multiple points to which another unit can attach itself: 18 of them, to be precise, which means that just two units can be combined in 435 ways. The number of possible configurations ...

The authors with their robot. From left to right: Alberto Comoretto, Harmannus A.H. Schomaker, Johannes T.B. Overvelde. A research team from AMOLF in Amsterdam created a soft robot that walks, hops, ...

AI-Evolved Adaptive Robot Is Nearly Impossible to Destroy Robots have long been designed around a simple assumption: their bodies and ...

Credit: Sam Kriegman/Northwestern University/Cover Images Engineers in the United States have created AI-powered robots that ...

Understanding Robot Embodiment. When we talk about robots, it’s easy to get caught up in the fancy AI or the cool-looking ...

Optimizing Robotic Positioning For Enhanced Precision. Getting a robot to do exactly what you want, where you want it, is the name of the game in robotic surgery. It’s not just ...

A research team from the Robotics and AI Institute (RAI) has developed a two-wheeled, bicycle-like robot platform called the ...