Imagine a string that can assemble itself into just about anything wherever and whenever you need it — a wrench to adjust your child’s bike seat or a hammer to pound a nail into the wall, for example.

(Nanowerk News) Robots can change directions, speeds and even their colors. But what about changing their shapes? With help from a sculptor's intuition, Yale researchers are on it. Led by Rebecca ...

No robot can reproduce the way that algal cells, begonias, and people can. However, an automaton that’s little more than a stack of blocks has shown that it, too, can make more of its own kind.

Out of all the cool-looking forms that robots can take – humanoid, dogs, fish, crocodiles, snakes, birds, or disembodied arms – a cube seems like a pretty boring choice. But MIT’s new take on the ...

An individual "M-Block" robot is simple and not very useful, but if you bring the fleet together, they can link up to form new shapes and structures. The M-Blocks were designed at MIT’s Computer ...

Anki's Cozmo may have looked like a toy by way of Wall-E when it launched last year, but the personality-filled robot has bigger ambitions than mere entertainment. Launching today is Cozmo Code Lab, ...

The cool thing about balloon animals is that, using the same basic inflatable building blocks, a skilled person can create just about anything you could ask for. That same methodology is what’s at the ...

ITHACA, N.Y. – Cornell University researchers have created microscale robots less than 1 millimeter in size that are printed as a 2D hexagonal “metasheet” but, with a jolt of electricity, morph into ...

Sony introduces its new Koov Education Kit, which allows students to build and program their own robots. The Science Technology Engineering Art and Math (STEAM) movement within the toy industry has ...