Research at Purdue University has led to development of a new kind of toy-building kit that allows children to create robots and control them remotely like a puppeteer. Here, the system is being used ...

Although soft-bodied robots themselves can be fairly simple, low-cost devices, they typically require complex onboard electronics to control their locomotion. Such is not the case with a new bot, ...

There's a new STEM option in town. The Robot Inventor kit can be turned into five robots, which can play basketball, walk, and shoot darts at intruders. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to ...

It's fun when a collection of plastic parts seems to have personality. I put together a robot with Lego's new Mindstorms NXT kit, set it on the kitchen floor, and watched it trundle forward on its ...

A case study in aerospace manufacturing provides an overview of how physics-informed digital twin systems transform robotics processes—from adaptive process planning and real-time process monitoring ...