Scientists created robots controlled by signals come from mycelia - the branching underground networks that support mushrooms.

A whole-body control foundation model could help launch humanoid robots toward general-purpose capability, says Agility ...

Until now, robots have been able to walk on flat surfaces. Even then, they've needed almost constant human guidance. These ...

Researchers from the Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (IIT) in Genoa (Italy) and Brown University in Providence (U.S.) have ...

Massive structural damage in the wake of disasters like tornadoes, hurricanes, landslides, and wildfires can make recovering ...

Engineers have created a new type of robot that places living fungi behind the controls. The biohybrid robot uses electrical signals from an edible type of mushroom called a king trumpet in order to ...

Researchers from the Italian Institute of Technology and Brown University in the US have found that people can “sense” a robot’s hand as an extension of their body. They found that performing a joint ...

Training humanoid robots to hike could accelerate development of embodied AI for tasks like autonomous search and rescue, ...

If a soft-bodied robot uses rigid actuators to move its body, then it isn't really soft now, is it? An experimental new caterpillar-inspired bot gets around that conundrum by using soft, collapsible ...

You may not know what a springtail is but man, those little things can jump! Scientists have now copied the creatures' jumping mechanism in a small robot that could one day explore places that people ...

Researchers found that working with a humanoid robot can change how our brains map the body, making its hand feel like part ...