With explosive growth in the fields of intelligent manufacturing, autonomous driving, and service robots, robot motion planninghas transitioned from academic research to the core of industry, becoming ...

Based on a study of both hatchling sea turtles and "FlipperBot" -- a robot with flippers -- researchers have learned principles for how both robots and turtles move on granular surfaces such as sand.

In one part of a laboratory in Bristol, UK, scientists are designing a nanoparticle swarm that will be able to target and kill tumour cells intelligently. Interactions between the tiny but simple ...