Simple ant-like robots collectively build or demolish structures without central control, just by tuning two parameters - ...

Tutor Intelligence in Watertown is a kind of kindergarten for robots.

When a knot lets go, it doesn't just fall apart. It snaps. That simple observation led Penn Engineers to rethink what a knot ...

Humanoid machines slowly picked up litter and sorted out bouquets of flowers on Tuesday in a demonstration of how robots ...

In crowded environments, more robots don’t always mean faster results—in fact, too many can bring everything to a standstill. Harvard researchers discovered a surprising fix: adding a bit of ...

Robots-to-goods has the potential to become the future of warehouse automation, as a technology set to define the category.

For decades, engineers have sculpted robots much like our own physical form, creating machines with faces, limbs, and ...

In one part of a laboratory in Bristol, UK, scientists are designing a nanoparticle swarm that will be able to target and kill tumour cells intelligently. Interactions between the tiny but simple ...

When it comes to teamwork, we could all learn something from ants. These relatively simple, small-brained animals are famous for their ability to collectively build massive, intricate, ...