Researchers at Dartmouth College have created modular robots that can assemble into structures and move through real-world terrain. Built from cube-shaped blocks, the robots combine rigid rods with ...

Building a robot that can reliably perceive, plan, and act in the real world is hard—especially when conditions change minute ...

It took nature millions of years to create intelligent, adaptive species. Researchers at Northwestern University in Illinois ...

Cut most robots in half, and you’re left with expensive debris. Cut this one apart, and the pieces just keep walking. These ...

SWARM members Christina Berry (left) and Harrison Felipe work on their modular robots. The team is composed of electrical, ...

Engineers at Northwestern University have created a new kind of robot that can adapt, recover from damage, and keep moving even after being broken apart. The machines, called “legged metamachines,” ...

The phrase "the whole is greater than the sum of its parts" is doubly true for SWARM, the WashU Robotics team on the cutting edge of modular robotics. The project’s 15 members are working to create ...

Innovations Shaping the Future of Robotics. It feels like robots are everywhere these days, doesn’t it? And it’s not just science fiction anymore. The way robots are being bui ...

Four months after impressing us with its talented Oli humanoid robot, the three-year-old tech startup has just unveiled Tron 2, which, as its name cleverly suggests, is the follow-up to Tron 1. Going ...