Cable cars are certainly handy for transporting cargo up steep mountain slopes, but what if you want to do the same sort of ...

Scientists have created a new type of soft robot that can carry cargo through the air by moving along thin wires or ...

North Carolina State University engineers have unveiled a light-powered soft robot that rolls along aerial cables like a ...

A team of roboticists at Tsinghua University, working with a trio of colleagues from Beihang University, all in China, has ...

Tiny, soft robot flexes its potential as a life saver Flexible, semi-autonomous robot could potentially find disaster victims buried in rubble, deliver medicine inside body Date: April 8, 2025 Source: ...

Unless you're some boring, unimaginative schmuck, chances are you've sometimes wondered what the world looks like from a tiny ...

Smaller than a human thumb and weighing less than a paperclip, the so-called hopping robot features a springy leg that helps ...

The update also included an improved controller (the robot’s brain) to decelerate the tiny robot’s landing approach. The combination now results in a “gentle plop-down,” as described in ...

First announced at CES 2025, Yukai Engineering’s Nékojita FuFu is a tiny robot that’s designed to hang off cups and bowls to cool food and drinks by blowing on them. Calling it a robot is ...

A hopping, insect-sized robot can jump over gaps or obstacles, traverse rough, slippery, or slanted surfaces, and perform aerial acrobatic maneuvers, while using a fraction of the energy required ...