CLEVELAND, Ohio - A soft, origami-inspired robot created by a Case Western Reserve University researcher may one day be used on an assembly line, in surgery or even outer space. The patent-pending ...

Athletes jumping off a diving board. A duck circling a pond. Planets rotating in space. What do all these things have in common? They—or at least, their robotic representations—are products of a ...

Powered by nothing more than puffs of air, robots molded from paper and silicone rubber can bend, twist, grip and even lift more than 100 times their weight. The pneumatic prototypes aren't as ...

Scientists from Donghua University in China have figured out how to manipulate graphene paper, which is about 200 times stronger than steel by weight, to fold on its own by applying heat. They believe ...

Robots imbued with a certain kind of common sense may soon be able to follow instructional diagrams to build things. When studying pictures for assembling IKEA furniture or LEGO villages, humans are ...