T he human brain, with its 100 billion neurons, powers everything we do, from thinking and creating to walking and talking.

Inspired by how brainless lifeforms such as starfish and slime moulds move around, physicists at the University of Amsterdam have constructed ‘odd’ objects that autonomously roll, crawl and wiggle ...

Locomotion, the ability to move from one place to another, is an essential survival strategy for virtually every organism. Adapting to the unpredictable terrain they run into, cells, fungi and ...

Researchers at UC San Francisco have enabled a man who is paralyzed to control a robotic arm that receives signals from his brain via a computer. He was able to grasp, move and drop objects just by ...

Researchers manipulated water waves to move ping pong balls with a level of precision that seems straight out of a sci-fi movie. reading time 3 minutes Imagine hopping onto a large floatie in a lake ...