Engineers are turning to animal origami, from insects that tuck away wings to a protist with an accordion-like neck, for ...

It's been a goal for as long as humanoids have been a subject of popular imagination—a general-purpose robot that can do rote ...

Like octopuses squeezing through a tiny sea cave, metatruss robots can adapt to demanding environments by changing their shape. These mighty morphing robots are made of trusses composed of hundreds of ...

Days after Meagan Brazil-Sheehan’s 6-year-old son was diagnosed with leukemia, they were walking down the halls of UMass Memorial Children’s Medical Center when they ran into Robin the Robot.