While humans need the right tools for the right job, some robots simply need the right outfit to roll, carry, push, and even glide. Primer, a tiny magnetic bot developed by researchers at MIT's ...

A person-shaped robot liquifies to escape a cage, then cools back into its original shape in a mold placed in the ground outside the bars. Wang and Pan et al. under CC BY-SA Researchers have created a ...

After making her name as a painter, the world's first A.I. robot artist, Ai-Da, is having a go at architecture.

Formless 'slime' robots that shape-change to complete complex tasks – it sounds like science fantasy. However, MIT researchers have developed a machine-learning technique that brings shape-changing ...

Imagine running on a cement footpath, and then suddenly through dry sand. Just to keep upright, you would have to slow down and change the way you run. In the same way, a walking robot would have to ...

A Cornell-led team has developed modular robots that can perceive their surroundings, make decisions and autonomously assume different shapes in order to perform various tasks – an accomplishment that ...

Like octopuses squeezing through a tiny sea cave, metatruss robots can adapt to demanding environments by changing their shape. These mighty morphing robots are made of trusses composed of hundreds of ...

In all, the robot can morph from about 34 millimeters (1.3 inches) wide in its square shape to about 21 millimeters (0.8 inches) wide in its elongated form. Unlike Jayaram's earlier mechanized ...

NEW HAVEN – What swims in water and walks on land, and has a shell and morphing limbs? A turtle. But instead of bone, flesh and cartilage, this creature consists of hardware, plastic, silicone and ...

(Nanowerk News) When danger approaches, the Moroccan flic-flac spider takes the shape of a ball and rolls away to safety. Just as the trick of shape-shifting to one’s environment has proved invaluable ...