Each unit has multiple points to which another unit can attach itself: 18 of them, to be precise, which means that just two ...

A team of engineers at Northwestern University has built a new class of modular robots called “legged metamachines,” which ...

Northwestern University's self-configuring modular robots survive being chopped in half and adapt outdoors without retraining, signaling resilient future tech.

It's now actually not that unusual to see quadruped robots that have powered wheels for feet, allowing them to either walk or roll as the situation dictates. The modular D1 is different, though, in ...

Schools of fish, colonies of bees, and murmurations of starlings exhibit swarming behavior in nature, flowing like a liquid in synchronized, shape-shifting coordination. Through the lens of fluid ...

(Nanowerk News) Researchers at MIT have made significant steps toward creating robots that could practically and economically assemble nearly anything, including things much larger than themselves, ...

What is it about a cheetah's build that enables it to run so fast? What gives the wolf its exceptional endurance? While these questions can be partly answered through animal experiments, many ...