Each robot costs only a single penny to manufacture. The robots could help advance everything from nanotechnology ...

There is also a dance studio, complete with a wood floor and large mirrors. Here scientists record the movements of human ...

Cell-sized robots can sense temperature, make decisions, and move autonomously using nanowatts of power—no external control ...

Robots small enough to travel autonomously through the human body to repair damaged sites may seem the stuff of science ...

New insect-scale microrobots can fly more than 100 times longer than previous versions. The new bots, also significantly faster and more agile, could someday be used to pollinate fruits and vegetables ...

General-purpose robots remain rare not for a lack of hardware but because we still can’t give machines the physical intuition ...

Robots now see the world with an ease that once belonged only to science fiction. They can recognize objects, navigate ...

Machine touted as first tiny robot to be able to sense, think and act, envisioning a future of use inside human body.

Computer-aided design (CAD) systems are tried-and-true tools used to design many of the physical objects we use each day. But ...

MIT researchers developed a framework that lets a user correct a robot's behavior during deployment using simple interactions, such as by pointing to an item, tracing a trajectory, or nudging the ...

The robots are both powered and programmed by light pulses, and each has their own unique identifier for individualized ...

Robotics combines computer science, engineering, and technology to design, construct, and utilize machines that are programmed to replicate or substitute human actions and decision-making. These ...