In its decades-long quest to mimic life, robotics has never had much trouble duplicating its brute force. Machines have long ...

PVC pipe, three motors and a tethered switch box. That’s the recipe for this underwater robot. It’s SeaPerch, launched by MIT ...

Massachusetts Institute of Technology engineers developed a robot powered by living muscle cells that move in response to flashes of light.

The swimmer has no motor, propeller or battery. Instead, its two soft fins are coated with a single sheet of living mouse ...

An MIT robot powered by a single layer of living muscle cells swam through a watery maze, following a light held in a researcher’s hand. It is slow, tiny and nowhere near ready for the open ocean, but ...

As technology improves, researchers slowly bridge the gap between prosthetics and human limbs: Scientists have developed a prosthetic hand that lets users feel temperatures and bionic legs that move ...

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MIT researchers built a robotic optics lab that assembled a working laser in 30 minutes, pointing toward more autonomous scientific research.

Engineers at MIT have devised an ingenious new way to produce artificial muscles for soft robots that can flex in more than one direction, similar to the complex muscles in the human body. The team ...

Why would you want a robot to see inside a sealed box? Digging deeper beyond the initial creepy thought, a new breakthrough from MIT could soon let warehouse robots do something pretty remarkable.

Advances in AI offer tantalizing glimpses of a future in which robots navigate the world the way humans do. The question is ...