MEVITA's design makes it both sturdy and easy to build by using a minimal number of parts that can all be found and bought ...

In fact, the inspiration for the design came from studying how leaves fall through the air, according to the Wednesday report in Science Robotics. Microfliers use an origami folding pattern ...

Researchers have created a tiny, shape-shifting robot that swims, crawls, and glides freely in the deep sea. Developed by a team at the Beihang University in China, the robot operated at a depth ...

Despite decades of progress, most robots are still programmed for specific, repetitive tasks. They struggle with the unexpected and can't adapt to new situations without painstaking reprogramming. But ...

Each device has an onboard battery-free actuator, a solar power-harvesting circuit and controller to trigger these shape changes in mid-air.

Small-scale robots with chemical propulsion and shape-morphing abilities mimic aquatic insects, enabling autonomous navigation for medical, environmental, and industrial use.

But such a strategy won't work for slime-like robots, which use thousands of tiny "muscles" to approximate and perfect a desired shape.

Researchers at Intel and Carnegie-Mellon University are using distributed computing and robotics to make shape-shifting robots a reality.