This robot, from Harvard researcher Robert Wood and Robotics Engineer Hiroyuki Suzuki of Sony, is just what the doctor ordered to help with difficult surgical tasks. Surgical robots have quickly ...

The big picture: While companies continue to improve robotic hardware, developing AI software to truly bring these machines to life has remained an elusive goal. This is especially disappointing given ...

It may sound like a machine from a sci-fi film, but a tiny self-folding ‘origami' robot that can walk and swim, before self-destructing, has been revealed. Small enough to sit on a fingertip and ...

Devin Balkcom, a student in Carnegie Mellon University's doctoral program in robotics, was looking for a challenge when he decided to develop the world's first origami-folding robot as the ...

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.

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

Researchers at Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have built a robot that can self-assemble and move without human intervention. WSJ's Robert Lee Hotz reports. Photo: ...

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