Imagine a string that can assemble itself into just about anything wherever and whenever you need it — a wrench to adjust your child’s bike seat or a hammer to pound a nail into the wall, for example.

At first glance, robots would appear to have exactly nothing in common with sweet peas or other climbing vines. Yet thanks to some innovative scientists, they now share at least one trait: the ability ...

Three robotics experts said humanoid robots need to move beyond flashy demos to performing tasks that are actually useful in ...

Engineers at Switzerland's ETH Zurich research institute have created an intriguing and impressive little robot that they call the Magnecko. The robot is inspired by a spider's design while also ...

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Create some cool mechanical creations when you print these free printable robot coloring pages for kids and adults. Print ...

Robots can walk, run, lie down, and act like humans, but none has attempted to jump massive heights before apart from small leaps. Now, there is a team that developed the "mechanical jumper," and it ...

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Japan sold a fully-functional robot suit that doesn't just resemble a combat mech from a video game, it was able to actually fight like one ...

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Over the last 50 years, the late Isaac Asimov’s “robot visions” have percolated through every layer of science fiction: They’re not only the foundation of other peoples’ sci-fi novels (and trilogies, ...

GeekWire is putting its own HQ2 in Pittsburgh for the month of February 2018 — reporting on the people, technologies and ideas transforming the industrial city into an innovation powerhouse. by Nat ...