South Korean engineers are stress testing a new kind of lunar robot that is designed to survive the Moon’s most hostile ...

Two autonomous robots combine walking, flying, and rolling in rescue missions that would be too risky for humans.

Researchers at The University of Texas at Austin recently received support from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to ...

The TRON 2 modular tri-form robot supports dual-arm, wheeled, and bipedal configurations for integrated VLA research and ...

Exploring the Moon’s surface is challenging enough, but reaching what lies beneath it is even harder. Deep pits and long lava ...

Step inside the Soft Robotics Lab at ETH Zurich, and you find yourself in a space that is part children's nursery, part ...

There is also a dance studio, complete with a wood floor and large mirrors. Here scientists record the movements of human ...

Tiny robots small enough to slip through blood vessels are moving from speculative fiction into the medical lab, promising ...

Two decades after it ignited a market for robot vacuums in homes, iRobot has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. The ...

From AI glasses with digital overlays to robot vacuums that can pick up your leftover laundry, here are ZDNET's Breakthrough Award winners for 2025.

Robot companies are racing toward a breakout year, but they'll have to confront some fundamental problems before making ...

Researchers have developed a polymer structure inspired by a classic “Chinese lantern” that can change into more than a dozen curved, three-dimensional shapes when it is compressed or twisted. These ...