Modular design is rapidly becoming the key to cost-effective automation, especially in sectors where demand variability and ...

While roboticists have introduced increasingly advanced systems over the past decades, most existing robots are not yet able ...

Solid results and bold new joint ventures in China show the group is betting big on the robot-powered future.

Scientists use millions of foam lattice combinations to create a robotic elephant with a twisting trunk and jointed limbs.

Today's robots are stuck—their bodies are usually closed systems that can neither grow nor self-repair, nor adapt to their ...

Traditional robot bodies "are still monolithic, unadaptive, and unrecyclable," said paper author and mechanical engineer Hod ...