The robot operates autonomously, without soldiers present in dangerous environments and without exposure to chemicals, oils, or extreme heat.

Mechanical engineers at Duke University have developed solid building blocks whose mechanical properties can ...

German company E-TERRY has designed its autonomous field robot E-TERRY specifically for mechanical in-row weed control in vegetable and specialty crops. The lightweight robot is currently available in ...

Ciqun Xu, researcher at the University of Bristol, says, “Think of the electro morphing gel robot and future soft robots as Swiss Army knives. Their ...

Mechanical engineers at Duke University have demonstrated a proof-of-concept method for programming mechanical properties ...

We're giving this robot with mechanical task arm a Best of CES Award. The only question left is, how soon can we get one? David Watsky Managing Editor / Home and Kitchen David lives in Brooklyn where ...

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While 2024 was the year of self-cleaning robot vacuums, 2025 promises to be the year of robotic limbs. At CES 2025, Roborock had spectators doing double and triple takes when it unveiled a new ...

Robotics is entering a new phase where general-purpose learning matters as much as mechanical design. Instead of programming ...

A case can be made for zigzagging through a topic to illuminate different facets to achieve broad and dynamic knowledge of what an industry offers. That’s what Machine Design set out to achieve during ...

One of my formative experiences with anime (and television as a whole) occurred while watching “Mobile Suit Gundam 00.” It’s a show containing many themes: energy crises, religious and ethnic ...