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A palm-sized robot has been made with a drop of liquid metal in a plastic wheel. The robot’s wheel rolls when the liquid metal changes the center of gravity, which is controlled by altering the ...

For MIT CSAIL, it's simple: give the robots a sense of touch. Its researchers have developed a recycling robot, RoCycle, that uses sensors in its hand to determine the nature of an item and sort ...

Automating recycling seems like the smart thing to do when considering the incredible amount of waste we humans produce every year. But robots can’t easily … ...

Technology Robot made of sticky tape and metal powder could crawl on your organs. Tiny robots made of metallic powder stuck to plastic tape and controlled by magnetic fields could one day crawl ...

Engineers have created a configurable robot that can transform into various structures, which has potential applications for building habitats in space.

Researchers in the US have developed RoCycle, a robotic recycling machine that can differentiate between paper, metal or plastic. The advance from MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence ...

If you thought it was all Etsy jewellery and plastic toys, though, think again. Joris Laarman has created a free-standing 3D printing robot that creates beautiful metal sculptures with the ...

Don’t be alarmed if you see a Zamboni-like rover roaming Ontario's shores this summer – it’s a beach cleaning robot being tested in some provincial parks.

Robots so tiny that they can manoeuvre through our blood vessels and ... scientists at ETH Zurich have succeeded for the first time in building such "micromachines" out of metal and plastic, ...