Handbot is one piece of a larger project called Swarmanoid. The aim of the swarmanoid is to replicate the functions we usually desire out of a humanoid bot with a whole swarm of specialized bots. That ...

Microtugs are small robots created by Stanford. The small bots can apply orders of magnitude more force than it weighs. This is in stark contrast to previous small robots that have become ...

Paraswift is a robot that can climb vertical surfaces with ease. Here you can see the robot motoring up the side of a building with a parachute packed on it’s back for use on the way down. The team ...

Mighty things come in small packages. The little robots in this video can haul things that weigh over 100 times more than themselves. The super-strong bots – built by mechanical engineers at Stanford ...

PHOENIX — Soft robots really get around. Some jump, others swim or crawl on the ground (SN Online: 12/13/16). Now, one can even scale walls. Inspired by an octopus’s suckers, researchers have ...

ReconScout already has a line of “throwable” small-scale spy bots, but their latest one has a very specific target: ships. In an age where pirates seem to be capturing cargo vessels left, right and ...