As per the study, these robots could “absorb and reuse parts,” not from a factory, but from their environment or even from other robots.

Traditional robot bodies "are still monolithic, unadaptive, and unrecyclable," said paper author and mechanical engineer Hod Lipson.

Engineers have created a configurable robot that can transform into various structures, which has potential applications for building habitats in space.

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RealSense spun out from Intel Corp. late last week with $50 million in funding from Intel Capital and MediaTek Innovation Fund.

Salto the squirrelly robot uses his flywheel to correct his balance. UC Berkeley. Salto will be able to not only explore low-gravity objects in space, researchers said, but also help people ...

The U.S. man-in-space program, Project Mercury, scored its greatest triumph last week, when with infinite precision, the robot-manned Mercury capsule MA4 was boosted into orbit, permitted to circle ...

ADAR empowers autonomous robots with omnidirectional depth perception, enabling them to ‘hear’ their surroundings in real-time 3D using airborne soundwaves to interpret spatial information. The sensor ...

Though eight of the humanoid robots were built, the one on display is the only one to travel to space. NASA created Robonaut 2 in partnership with GM, and the Discovery shuttle delivered the robot ...

At the Robopalooza festival in the California desert, engineers are stress-testing space robots, which they say could someday build the infrastructure needed to settle the moon and beyond.

However, the exhibit includes video of the robot doing its various jobs in space. The robot is expected to stay on display at the Udvar-Hazy center for at least a few years.