Using paper coated with silicon resin and iron particles, researchers created an untethered soft robot that can move without any electronics. This magnetically controlled device can detect heavy metal ...

In what may be the birth of cheap, easy-to-make robots, researchers have created complex machines that transform themselves from little more than a sheet of paper and plastic into walking automatons.

Inspired by his belief that human beings are essentially terrified of robots, Ben Russell set about charting the evolution of automatons for an exhibition he hopes will force people to think about how ...

Ankur Mehta is lead researcher on a project out of MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory that quite literally enables people to print robots on a standard piece of paper at ...

Robots and self-driving cars have one very large challenge in common, how to navigate the world. Typically, that task is approached by artificial intelligence as a problem of how to map the ...

Artist Olafur Eliasson and architect Carlo Ratti have collaborated on a celestial mapping robot that brings together their hit design brands Little Sun and Scribit. The product of the collaboration by ...