Bees, ants and termites don't need blueprints. They may have queens, but none of these species breed architects or construction managers. Each insect worker, or drone, simply responds to cues like ...

STEAMpunk is a team of Wisconsin high school students in Manitowoc County who build robots to compete in the FIRST Robotics Competition. Our manufacturing process allows us to develop robots that ...

Editor’s Note: This is part of a series called Inside the Lab, which gives audiences a first-hand look at the research laboratories at the University of Chicago and the scholars who are tackling some ...

Researchers have developed a new robotic framework powered by artificial intelligence -- called RHyME (Retrieval for Hybrid Imitation under Mismatched Execution) -- that allows robots to learn tasks ...

For billions of years, nature has been the world’s master engineer. Natural evolution has created impressive, sometimes implausible creatures. Take, for instance, the water strider. This group of ...

FAYETTEVILLE -- In a space where bots meet berries, the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, is working to fill a technological gap in farming. Anthony Gunderman, now an assistant professor in the ...

Horror stories from robot vacuum owners mostly stem from two fixable mishaps: They accidentally bought a dinky robot vacuum or merely haven't set their very capable robot vacuum up for success in the ...

Happy, sad, surprised, angry and neutral are the five emotions displayed by the tiny robot designed by SEAS researchers. The robot, named Bartholomew, is just taller than a penny, approximately 1 ...

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

Researchers at MIT have developed a flying robot that can fly as fast as a bumblebee and could, someday, help with search-and-rescue missions.