Consumer robotics company Vincross has introduced a new bot to the world, and people with entomophobia might want to steer clear of it. HEXA is a small, six-legged robot that resembles a crab or a ...

Scientists have literally reanimated dead spiders to do their bidding. In a new field dubbed “necrobotics,” researchers converted the corpses of wolf spiders into grippers that can manipulate objects.

[Photo: Rakuten] Animal-shaped robots are pretty fun, right? Whether it’s a toy bot like Pleo the Dinosaur or the more advanced Necoro the feline robot, animal robots are be really entertaining to ...

Robot arms and grippers do important work every hour of every day. They’re used in production lines around the world, toiling virtually ceaselessly outside of their designated maintenance windows.

Researchers have developed an integrated fabrication process that for the very first time enables the design of soft robots on the millimeter scale with micrometer-scale features. To demonstrate the ...

The classic image of a robot is rigid and metallic, but if they're ever going to work alongside humans in the real world, they're going to need a softer touch. Harvard researchers have developed a new ...

Nothing in particular about Festo, a Germany-based international corporation specializing in industrial robotics, suggests that the company has a mandate to design spider robots. Yet the company is ...

The need for airship repairs can quickly become problematic for airline companies. A significant amount of time and resources are spent working on tedious repair tasks. Further, with even the tiniest ...

A spider-like construction robot designed in Australia is edging toward a role that once belonged only in science fiction: assembling the first permanent structures on the Moon. Instead of astronauts ...

Three-dimensional printing has long had a serious limitation: You can’t make an object larger than the print bed. Consequently, 3-D printers for large-scale objects have taken up a lot of space and ...