Recent technological advances have opened new possibilities for the development of robotic systems, including spacecraft for ...

A new type of soft robot can crawl like a worm, climb cables, and suddenly snap into a completely different shape to move in a new direction—all controlled by a single air input. This breakthrough, ...

But researchers at the Italian Institute of Technology (IIT) have a system that manages to check both boxes, thanks to its ...

Researchers from the University of Michigan and UC San Diego (UCSD) studied tail-assisted midair reorientation in robots and found that mammals have already optimized this movement efficiently. Their ...