I was watching kite surfers harness the wind to carve sweeping arcs and achieve effortless lifts…Yet, I realized nature had ...

Humans place a lot of stock in overcoming nature. It's the core of our identity: We rose above the daily scramble for survival, formed society, created art and leisure and religion. By contrast, the ...

A new study published in Nature Communications details a hybrid robot that combines the wind-driven mobility of tumbleweeds ...

At the Soft Robotics Lab at ETH Zurich, the scene looks less like a traditional engineering workshop and more like a child’s ...

Suspended on a cable fixed between two trees in front of the Engineering Gateway building on UC Irvine’s campus hangs the RaccoonBot. And well, he’s just adorable. “The ‘cute factor’ wasn’t just a ...

Imagine a swarm of tiny robots, each about the size of the palm of your hand, spreading out over a wildfire-ravaged community ...

A team of roboticists at the Beijing Institute of Technology, working with a pair of colleagues from the Technical University of Munich, has created a new kind of rat robot—one that was designed to ...

Visual servoing for mobile robots encompasses the integration of real‐time visual feedback into the control loop for autonomous navigation and manipulation. This approach leverages data from onboard ...

Human–robot interaction (HRI) and gesture-based control systems represent a rapidly evolving research field that seeks to bridge the gap between human intuition and robotic precision. This area ...