A mechanical engineering student at Purdue University, YouTuber, and self-described robot fanatic has released ...

A robot powered by muscle tissue could improve how engineers design future robots for disaster-relief operations, exploration or construction, new research finds.

A robot powered by muscle tissue could improve how engineers design future robots for disaster-relief operations, exploration or construction, new research finds.

Purdue University engineers have created a tiny rectangular robot that is the size of a few human hairs. In the image below, it's the tiny rectangular device with the black ends. The tiny robot ...

Instead of investigating whether spindly-legged humanoid robots can take over jobs at a car factory, Walti founded a company called Mytra that aims to use flat, rectangular robots to move pallets ...

Apple awarded design patent for actual rounded rectangle The patent's precise legal potential against Samsung or others is in question.

Adding a cockroach-like outer shell to the design of a small robot improved its ability to negotiate obstacles. Similar robots could one day aid search and rescue operations.

Through a design process that Guitron describes as “mostly trial and error,” the researchers arrived at a rectangular robot with accordion folds perpendicular to its long axis and pinched corners that ...