Cool Robots

Mechanical flying insects can soon be made using printers.

The Cubli is a 15 × 15 × 15 cm cube that can jump up and balance on its corner. Reaction wheels mounted on three faces of the cube rotate at high angular vel...

Gasbot and machines like it could one day be used to sniff out dangerous emissions in landfills, mines and even city streets

A robotic hand working with a Kinect depth-sensing camera can adjust its fingers to grasp any object it is presented with, from a lightbulb to a copy of New Scientist

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Inspired by a bird known as the swiftlet, scientists have created a robotic quadcopter that can extrude polyurethane foam while in flight. By targeting where that foam goes, it can build up simple structures, essentially becoming a flying 3D printer.

Challenging a favored theory, measurements suggest that electrostatic interactions make gecko feet supersticky.

Octopus-inspired robot could one day help researchers observe underwater ecosystems.

A device being tested by Stanford University researchers is the latest in an area of medical development known as “electroceuticals.”

A swarm of small, clever robots could be key to self-sufficient solar system exploration

The machines use heated hinges to transform into shape and crawl around.

Thin, flexible new material steals the color-shifting capabilities of cephalopod skin.

Engineers have developed a flexible sensor 'skin' that can be stretched over any part of a robot's body or prosthetic to accurately convey information about shear forces and vibration, which are critical to tasks ranging from cooking an egg to dismantling a bomb.

"OrigamiBot-I: A Thread-Actuated Origami Robot for Manipulation and Locomotion," by Evan Vander Hoff, Donghwa Jeong, and Kiju Lee, from Case Western Reserve ...

A swarm of a thousand tiny robots can now self-assemble into complex shapes, suggesting scientists have taken a step forward in engineering collective artificial intelligence