This refreshingly mechanical hand-made robot automaton can be hand-cranked to close its fists, drop its chest plate and unleash a hellfire of rubber bands onto its victims. As exciting as all this ...

A Harvard team has demonstrated that robots can be designed to react to their environment and perform tasks by programming intelligence into their structure. They created a robot capable of ...

Robots don’t grow on trees, but as one Japanese designer has proven, they can be made from trees. The artist known as Kikousya has designed and built the Mechanical Paper Robot from wood pulp, a ...

How can a few grams of battery, geared motor, and some nifty materials get a jumping robot over 30 meters into the air? It wasn’t by copying a grasshopper, kangaroo, or an easily scared kitty. How was ...

The ability of robots to handle deformable objects such as wires, clothing, or rubber bands is a core challenge in the automation of manufacturing and service industries. However, until now, it has ...

The DARPA Grand Challenge involves designing and building an autonomous vehicle that races 212 kilometers across the Nevada desert. Today, you will face your own design challenge: Build a rubber ...