Eight years after suffering a brutal spiral and compound fracture of his right tibia and fibula, Alex Smith has come forward to reveal the details of the injury. Looking back, during a conversation ...

In a laboratory in Connecticut, a palm-sized silicone robot scrunches up its body to inch forward in a caterpillar-like motion. A brick tips over onto its leg, trapping it as it struggles to move on.

Roboticists at The Faboratory at Yale University have developed a way for soft robots to replicate some of the more unsettling things that animals and insects can accomplish — say, a reptile ...