An era in which robots decide "how to walk" on their own has arrived. A four-legged robot has been developed that, much like ...

A team of engineers has developed a four-legged robot that can decide for itself how to move through different environments, ...

Researchers at the Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory use a slew of autonomous robots to design and ...

A lightweight robot modeled on diving birds can swim underwater, break through the surface, and continue flying without using ...

This week’s cover of the international journal 'Science' features a winged amphibious robot bursting above the water’s ...

Machine-learning models can speed up the discovery of new materials by making predictions and suggesting experiments. But most models today only consider a few specific types of data or variables.

Loons, gulls, puffins and petrels are some of the 100 species of birds that can both fly and swim. These diving birds can ...

Researchers have developed a digital laboratory (dLab) system that fully automates the material synthesis and structural, physical property evaluation of thin-film samples. With dLab, the team can ...

Robotics researchers often spend weeks, or even months, simply getting a new robot up and running before they can begin ...