If someone asked you to move like a robot and you responded with the fluid art of ballet, your audience would be baffled, yet ...

When Jonas Wüst first met rescue divers in Switzerland, what struck him wasn’t their courage, it was how much danger still defined their work. “We realized how outdated it all was,” he recalls.

An underwater robot can delicately propel itself in any direction with its 12 flexible arms, inspired by the flagella of bacteria. Its creators claim it can carry out underwater inspections without ...

Scientists at the Chinese Academy of Sciences have engineered a breakthrough in robotic vision. They created an artificial compound eye inspired by the fruit fly. This tiny device allows robots to see ...