GIVING ROBOTS PERCEPTION. Every kid who every played with Transformers toys was probably more enamored with their shape-shifting abilities, but you can’t have a living, humanoid robot without ...

British inventor James Bruton has built what most of us wildly dreamed of in childhood – a transformer robot that you can actually ride. The robot is a functional, shape-shifting vehicle that will ...

Shape-shifting soft robots deliver customizable vibrations and stiffness, opening new possibilities in rehab and immersive ...

A team of engineers at Singapore University of Technology and Design has created a truly unique robot—one that can roll ...

Researchers have created a new class of robots that can shift between solid and liquid forms on demand. In a series of tests, these new bots could change shape to run obstacle courses, carry ...

Back in 1991, ground breaking visual effects helped bring the shape-shifting liquid metal T-1000 robot to life in James Cameron’s Terminator 2, but 32 years later, shape-shifting robots now ...

Coming to a tight spot near you: CLARI, the little, squishable robot that can passively change its shape to squeeze through narrow gaps—with a bit of inspiration from the world of bugs. CLARI ...

A spider-inspired robot called mCLARI weighs less than a gram and could one day be deployed to aid first responders following a natural disaster or help out in surgery.

Hugging Face Inc. has open-sourced the blueprints of two internally developed robots called HopeJR and Reachy Mini. The company debuted the machines on Thursday. Hugging Face is backed by more ...