Liquid crystal elastomer (LCE) sheets are a leading candidate for making microscale soft robots in this way. These flat materials deform into 3D shapes in response to light, heat and electromagnetic ...

How to Build a Robot That Won't Take Over the World. The computer scientist Christoph Salge is trying to circumvent the need for rules that guide robots’ behavior.

The researchers’ robots were slightly more than 5 centimeters in diameter, though the goal is to get them down to 1 or 2 centimeters, or even smaller. Topics In Brief , Robotics , t1000 ...

RC motors, fabric, and 3D printers are coming together in Philadelphia to create the first biologically correct robot dinosaurs so scientists can learn more about how the extinct creatures lived ...

Researchers have developed modular robots that can perceive their surroundings, make decisions and autonomously assume different shapes in order to perform various tasks -- an accomplishment that ...

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, Mori is an acronym for Modular Origami Robots.

Currently, the robot is limited to manipulating shapes and attachments. It cannot yet reason about particular material properties, a crucial step in advancing to real-world scenarios.

For robots though, picking up a variety of shapes poses a significant challenge. Thanks to work carried out at the University of California Berkeley, at least one robot is handily overcoming that ...

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 ...