The computer scientist Christoph Salge is trying to circumvent the need for rules that guide robots’ behavior. His strategy: Give them a goal of making us more powerful.

Here’s our soft robot hand in action: This article was originally published in the May 2015 issue of Popular Science, under the title “Wave Hello To A Soft Robot Hand.” ...

Ever wanted to build a robot? Trick question. Everybody wants to build a robot. Since the dawn of man, it’s been our mission to create untethered beauty and then immediately subjugate it to our ...

Newly developed robotic kits with legs, inspired from animal movement, constitute off-the-shelf solutions for scientist who need to model movement Robots are usually thought off as devices to ...

New ‘Paleo-Robots’ Could Shed Light on Animal Evolution, Revealing How Some Fish Evolved to ‘Walk’ on Land A team of roboticists, paleontologists and biologists are building robots to ...

Just as we and many animals—including cephalopods—learn at a young age how to control our limbs, so, too, will these soft-bodied robots.

Spider senses So, how can engineers build robots that, like animals, are more than just the sum of their parts? Animals, Jayaram noted, aren’t split into separate subsystems in the same way as ...

New research shows us that age-old interactions between people and their horses can teach us something about building robots designed to improve our lives.

Scientists studying animal behavior and movement have developed robotic birds and bugs capable of anything from surveillance to space exploration. Here are five of our favorite biologically inspire ...