Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Few truly autonomous systems are deployed on the battlefield, but one startup is looking to change that with robotic systems that ...

Researchers at the University of Waterloo have developed a system that allows humans to ...

The origins of swarm robotics lie in explorations of principles of self-organization and collective decision-making. The early 2000s marked the transition of swarm robotics from theory to practice as ...

Taking inspiration from nature, a team of scientists from Princeton University and Northwestern University is building a swarm of interconnected mini-robots that could one day lead to buildings with ...

Even though snails are slow and slimy-bottomed, they've inspired a new type of robot that could be quite useful. Groups of these bots can operate independently or join together in order to perform ...