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

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

As per the study, these robots could “absorb and reuse parts,” not from a factory, but from their environment or even from other robots.

Scientists at the University of Washington have developed "microfliers" the size of a postage stamp that fold like origami paper to change their flight pattern.

A new type of soft robot can crawl like a worm, climb cables, and suddenly snap into a completely different shape to move in a new direction—all controlled by a single air input. This ...

Eye contact and chemical reprogramming may help humans and robots age better and connect more clearly through communication.

Shape-shifting robot Robotic locomotion has advanced significantly, but robots still struggle to match animals’ agility and adaptability on complex terrains, limiting their use in challenging ...

ANYmal-D, the badminton-playing quadruped robot from ETH Zurich, combines artificial intelligence with whole-body coordination to rally with human players for up to 10 shots.

YOLO can mean many things, but in the context of [be_riddickulous]’s AI Talking Robot Dinosaur it refers to the “You Only Look Once” YOLOv11 object-detection algorithm by Ultralyt… ...

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 move and change shape to run obstacle courses ...

A new robot called mCLARI can passively change its shape to squeeze into narrow gaps. It also weighs less than a gram and can lift payloads weighing more than three times that amount.