Researchers from MIT have created prototype assembly robots called BILL-E (Bipedal Isotropic Lattice Locomoting Explorer) that can build small structures on their own or work together to create ...

If you want to build a small robot that can handle soft terrain well, screw drives could be just the solution you’re looking for.

This Band Of Small Robots Could Build Entire Skyscrapers Without Human Help The Minibuilders could take on tall tasks, including automating another frontier of human labor: the construction industry.

Ever since I saw the robot‑fight scene in Big Hero 6 (YT link), I’ve wanted to build my own small fighting bots. Today that dream is a step closer: I’ve packed everything I know into a tiny ...

How to Build a Robot Octopus Smart, strong and flexible, the octopus is an enticing model for an entirely new kind of many-armed, multitalented robot ...

To make a robot that small, Jayaram explained, the researchers begin by using a laser to etch the shape of its body parts into a sheet of carbon fiber composite. “We make everything in a plane as a ...

BALTIMORE — In a high-tech lab on Johns Hopkins University’s Homewood campus in Baltimore, engineers have been building a robot that may be able to stitch ...

UT Austin spinout Apptronik has been working quietly to build humanoid robots for the past eight years, before the AI hype cycle exploded.

Building a house by hand can be both time-consuming and costly — so some homebuilders are now automating part of the construction process. The homebuilding startup ICON uses a 3D-printing robot ...

Telling a robot to build a better robot seems like the beginning of any number of terrifying dystopian stories in science fiction. But this seems innocuous enough. A team led by University of ...

Robopteryx—a makeshift dinosaur with training wheels—offers clues to the purpose of prehistoric proto-wings, which are too small to have powered flight ...