Sea stars seem calm and simple, yet their method of movement is surprisingly complex. Instead of relying on a centralized brain to direct movement, sea stars coordinate hundreds of tiny tube feet.

Forecasting volcanic eruptions in time to alert authorities and populations remains a major global challenge. In a study published in Nature Communications, researchers and engineers from the Institut ...

Using robotic fins, researchers at the University of California, Riverside have learned how stingrays are able to swim with impressive control. These insights could help underwater vehicles avoid ...

No matter where we call home — an apartment, single-family home, townhouse, condo, or mobile home — most of us simply want to live in peace. Our tolerance for noise and general hubbub differs ...

Something to look forward to: Inside a Columbia University engineering lab, a humanoid robot has learned to move its lips with previously unseen realism. The project, led by the Creative Machines Lab, ...

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Long gone are the days of rigid robotics, where arms jerk and clank in the most unintuitive ways. These movements have hindered production and industry for years, requiring massive spaces to operate ...

This image depicts the real-time transfer of a human’s motion to a robotic avatar, enabling the latter to perform a dexterous task. Accelerating progress in robotic automation promises to ...

A gelatin memristor with 16 stable conductance states mimics biological pain perception, rating intensity, sensitizing after injury, and self-healing while directly controlling mouse muscle response. ...

Abstract: The performance of optimization-based robot motion planning algorithms is highly dependent on the initial solutions, commonly obtained by running a sampling-based planner to obtain a ...