A robotic arm made of metal and plastic moves a sample in a laboratory setting. Robotic laboratories driven by artificial intelligence algorithms could speed up materials discovery. Researchers have ...

Researchers reveal the physics of jumping shell structures, improving control and agility in soft robots inspired by the mechanics of a simple popper toy. The team meticulously analyzed the jumping ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about perception, sensors and LIDAR for autonomous vehicles, drones and robots Artificial Intelligence (AI) has the ...

See how X1, a humanoid robot that walks, flies and drives, could transform emergency response and everyday life.

This year's EU Contest for Young Scientists showcased hard science with a social edge, with young scientists presenting innovations ranging from robot turtles to quantum discoveries. For Evan Budz, a ...

Typical jumping behavior of a spherical shell obtained from simulation: it jumps from the inverted configuration back to its original shape. Inspired by a simple children's toy, a jumping popper toy, ...

In brief: In what is certainly one of the quirkiest science demonstrations we've seen, researchers have taken inspiration from a phenomenon observed in Cheerios to create tiny robots powered by vodka.

In a demonstration that signals a new chapter in mobile robotics, researchers at the California Institute of Technology have ...

Physics has a reputation as a tough upper-level science course, even at the high school level. It's therefore somewhat ironic that every human on Earth performs thousands of physics calculations on a ...