Aug. 29 sees the 22nd All Japan Robot Sumo Tournament kicking off with the Tohoku playoffs in Akita. The tournament is an opportunity for Japan's amateur robot enthusiasts to show off their skills, as ...

A laboratory at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) announced "AutoSaw", a method for easily creating pre-order-made furniture by combining software and robot, even for individual users ...

Just like bees, the individual robots in this simulation have no master plan. Simply by responding to local cues, they are able to construct honeycomb-like structures. The method could presage a new ...

MANILA, Philippines — Before gadgets ruled playtime, kids played with paper, scissors and glue. For many 2000s kids, that imagination took shape as Foldabots, the Filipino do-it-yourself cardboard ...

Researchers have developed small robots that can work together as a collective that changes shape and even shifts between solid and “fluid-like” states — a concept that should be familiar to anyone ...

Swarm Intelligence, inspired by collective behaviors in nature, is now being applied to robotics, enabling multiple humanoid robots to collaborate seamlessly on complex tasks. UBTech's Walker S1 ...