MEVITA's design makes it both sturdy and easy to build by using a minimal number of parts that can all be found and bought ...

In fact, the inspiration for the design came from studying how leaves fall through the air, according to the Wednesday report in Science Robotics. Microfliers use an origami folding pattern ...

Researchers have created a tiny, shape-shifting robot that swims, crawls, and glides freely in the deep sea. Developed by a team at the Beihang University in China, the robot operated at a depth ...

A soft robot that mimics a caterpillar by using liquid crystal elastomers (LCEs) with paper-based electrodes to create ...

But such a strategy won't work for slime-like robots, which use thousands of tiny "muscles" to approximate and perfect a desired shape.

Researchers at Intel and Carnegie-Mellon University are using distributed computing and robotics to make shape-shifting robots a reality.