Some engineers at Virginia Tech have decided to push this kind of capability to a new extreme, creating a robot that shape-shifts by melting its own metal skeleton to convert from a four-wheeled ...

Science fiction tends to project the present into the future, and so its predictions are often suspect. That’s why we’ll see people send faxes in future worlds imagined years ago, instead of beaming ...

Boston Dynamics, the famed manufacturer of the robots that will one day ascend past human intelligence and install themselves as our metallic overlords, released the latest version of its bipedal ...

The end goal is to make robot actuators that are part of the circuit board itself. The genesis of this idea came from Carl’s interest in drone design, in fact, he jumped right into a drone ...

Stretchy circuits will make for better wearables and robots Liquid-metal electronics can be stretched up to four times their original length.