This refreshingly mechanical hand-made robot automaton can be hand-cranked to close its fists, drop its chest plate and unleash a hellfire of rubber bands onto its victims. As exciting as all this ...

Robots don’t grow on trees, but as one Japanese designer has proven, they can be made from trees. The artist known as Kikousya has designed and built the Mechanical Paper Robot from wood pulp, a ...

A Harvard team has demonstrated that robots can be designed to react to their environment and perform tasks by programming intelligence into their structure. They created a robot capable of ...

The ability of robots to handle deformable objects such as wires, clothing, or rubber bands is a core challenge in the automation of manufacturing and service industries. However, until now, it has ...

The DARPA Grand Challenge involves designing and building an autonomous vehicle that races 212 kilometers across the Nevada desert. Today, you will face your own design challenge: Build a rubber ...

Researchers demonstrate that robots can be designed to react to their environment and perform tasks by programming intelligence into their structure, with minimal electronics. (Nanowerk News) From ...