Consider the marvelous physics of the human knee. The largest hinge joint in the body, it has two rounded bones held together ...

Ground Control Robotics (GCR) Inc., a startup company seeking to commercialize a centipede-like robot developed at Georgia Institute of Technology, may be on the verge of acquiring its first customers ...

Future robots could soon have a lot more muscle power. Northwestern University engineers have developed a soft artificial muscle, paving the way for untethered animal- and human-scale robots. The new ...

The symmetrical design and flexible fingers mean that the robot can transport objects on either side of its body. For humans, ...

An international research team has unveiled significant findings regarding the locomotion of elongated amphibious animals. The researchers developed an innovative model that explains how elongated ...