After submerging the robot in underwater tunnels designed to mimic swimming near the sea floor, their tests indicate that ...

Biologists and engineers have joined forces to build a new robot bat that’s helping us understand how real bats use ...

Researchers made a robot bat that demonstrates how real bats use echolocation to find prey at night, contributing to the fields of biology, engineering, and robotics.

Researchers at the University of Tokyo and their collaborators have developed a digital laboratory system that fully automates the material synthesis and the structural and physical property ...

Scientists have built microscopic, light-powered robots that can think, swim, and operate independently at the scale of ...

Nature is, of course, the master engineer—been there, seen it, solved it. While we struggle to design buildings that don't ...

Machine-learning models can speed up the discovery of new materials by making predictions and suggesting experiments. But most models today only consider a few specific types of data or variables.

A competition calling for research projects involving so-called AI scientists shows just how fast this technology is moving.

Adding robots to therapy can help autistic children develop foundational social skills like taking turns, making eye contact, and paying attention. Researchers in Europe added a learning robot to ...

China's Shenzhou-21 astronauts have steadily advanced scientific experiments in several fields aboard China's space station over the past week.