Robotics engineers design, build, maintain and repair robots. They also conduct research, perform tests, create prototypes and evaluate robotic systems. Diverse fields use robotic systems for ...

Our research in robotics and autonomy drives fundamental advances in materials, actuation, and sensing and control; sensorimotor integration; locomotion, manipulation, and swarm behavior; machine ...

In her talk, “Learning from Nature: The Mechanics Behind the Robotic Zoo,” Ventura discussed her own work developing robots that mimic fish. She also offers insights into how more engineers are ...

What It's About Robotics is an interdisciplinary field, combining aspects of mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, computer science, mathematics, biology, psychology, and others. This course ...

Scientists develop a water strider robot with fan-like feet, mimicking insects to navigate turbulent water surfaces.

Application of tools from differential geometry and Lie groups to problems in dynamics, controllability, and motion planning for mechanical systems, particularly with non-Euclidean configuration ...

With jerky determination, robots played soccer, wowed children with shadow-boxing skills and shot arrows on Monday at the birthplace of the Olympic Games.

Mechanical engineer Josie Hughes is on a mission to show how robotics can play a role in our everyday lives, particularly when it comes to food.

Northwestern Engineering researchers have developed the smallest-ever remote-controlled walking robot — and it comes in the form of a tiny, adorable peekytoe crab. Just a half-millimeter wide, the ...

It seems that when it comes to robot musicians, talent runs the gamut about as much as it does for humans. From the bizarre ...