Newly developed mathematical rules allow virtual swarms of tiny robots to build without blueprints. In computer simulations, ...

Working alongside Cyrus Mostajeran of the UK’s University of Cambridge, they believe that their work will make it possible to ... for making microscale soft robots in this way. These flat materials ...

We’ve added a fix so the virtual robot cares a bit more about your empowerment than about its own. How do you make these concepts precise? If you think about agents as control systems ...

Researchers have developed small robots that can work together as a collective that changes shape and even shifts between solid and “fluid-like” states — a concept that should be familiar to ...

That's no small feat for Hall and his co-director, Chris Williams. They were desperate to create a robot nobody had ever seen before. For inspiration, they put up pictures of the big ones like ...

One important aspect of polygons is that they are two-dimensional, and so are the ones that can form the Mori3 robot. By the way ... of human activity doesn't make things very profitable, so ...

A robot has learned how to mould modelling clay into letters that it has never seen before. Creating complex shapes out of doughy materials is a skill that could be put to use in the future in the ...