It's been a goal for as long as humanoids have been a subject of popular imagination—a general-purpose robot that can do rote ...

Like octopuses squeezing through a tiny sea cave, metatruss robots can adapt to demanding environments by changing their shape. These mighty morphing robots are made of trusses composed of hundreds of ...

Engineers are turning to animal origami, from insects that tuck away wings to a protist with an accordion-like neck, for ...

HydroSpread, a breakthrough fabrication method, lets scientists build ultrathin soft robots directly on water. These tiny, ...