Researchers at Dartmouth College have created modular robots that can assemble into structures and move through real-world terrain. Built from cube-shaped blocks, the robots combine rigid rods with ...

It took nature millions of years to create intelligent, adaptive species. Researchers at Northwestern University in Illinois ...

A team at Northwestern University used artificial intelligence to evolve robot body plans inside a physics simulation, then physically assembled the top-performing designs and turned them loose on ...

Building a robot that can reliably perceive, plan, and act in the real world is hard—especially when conditions change minute ...

SWARM members Christina Berry (left) and Harrison Felipe work on their modular robots. The team is composed of electrical, ...

Northwestern University engineers have developed the first modular robots with athletic intelligence. They can be combined and recombined in the wild, recover from injury and keep moving no matter ...

UK tech company AUAR makes portable micro-factories that it says can produce the wooden frame of a house in a day.

The phrase "the whole is greater than the sum of its parts" is doubly true for SWARM, the WashU Robotics team on the cutting edge of modular robotics. The project’s 15 members are working to create ...

Four months after impressing us with its talented Oli humanoid robot, the three-year-old tech startup has just unveiled Tron 2, which, as its name cleverly suggests, is the follow-up to Tron 1. Going ...

In a move that inches us just a little closer to the singularity, engineers have developed robots that can grow, self-repair, and morph by absorbing parts from other robots. They can also help their ...