MIT engineers have quietly solved one of the biggest bottlenecks in living-tissue robotics, creating synthetic tendons that ...

The boundary between living tissue and machine is blurring in MIT laboratories. Engineers there have developed a bio-inspired ...

Gastrointestinal cancers rank among the deadliest in the world, yet they often grow in places doctors struggle to reach. If ...

Researchers have developed an Artificial Intelligence (AI) system that enables a four-legged robot to adapt its gait to different, unfamiliar terrain, just like a real animal, in what is believed to ...

Ádám Miklósi and Judit Abdai have compiled a groundbreaking book on how the study of animal behavior is shaping the future of social robots In a groundbreaking exploration of the synergy between ...

( Nanowerk News) Engineers have designed robots that crawl, swim, fly and even slither like a snake, but no robot can hold a ...

For a while, as part of a research project on care robots in Sweden, I had Paro the seal in my house. I had borrowed Paro from a roboticist colleague, and the seal had a longer-than-planned layover ...

A visualization of Tiktaalik roseae, an extinct aquatic animal with fossils that shed light on the evolution of land animals from marine animals millions of years ago. Nobu Tamura via Wikimedia ...

What makes many animals run faster and better than robots or humans? Robots run faster than humans due to better agility, robustness, and range. Believe it or not, robot cockroaches can assist ...

The field of paleo-inspired robotics is opening up a new way to turn back time and studying prehistoric animals. Paleontologists aren’t easily deterred by evolutionary dead ends or a sparse fossil ...

Researchers have developed an Artificial Intelligence (AI) system that enables a four-legged robot to adapt its gait to different, unfamiliar terrain, just like a real animal, in what is believed to ...