Fixing underground water pipes usually means digging up roads and sidewalks — a process that's disruptive and expensive. However, researchers at the University of Sheffield in the U.K. are working on ...

In the Micromouse competition, tiny autonomous robots race to solve complex mazes as quickly as possible. Some of the fastest robots can complete the course in as little as six seconds, using sensors, ...

Researchers at Penn’s School of Engineering and Applied Science, alongside collaborators from the University of Michigan, ...

Mighty things come in small packages. The little robots in this video can haul things that weigh over 100 times more than themselves. The super-strong bots – built by mechanical engineers at Stanford ...

In robotics, as in so many things, small is beautiful. The trouble is that making them really small is very nearly impossible. “Building robots that operate independently at sizes below one millimeter ...

For decades, microscopic robots lived mostly in our imagination. Movies like "Fantastic Voyage" convinced us that tiny machines would one day cruise through the human body, fixing problems from the ...

Robots could soon be coming to Rifle — with a paint brush and job to do. During Rifle city council’s regular meeting on Feb. 19, city staff asked the council to submit a mini-grant application to the ...

Most robots depend on controlled environments, because the real world is hard to get around in. The smaller the robot, the bigger this problem because little wheels (or legs) can take only little ...

Sometimes, the most delightful little things can cause the biggest smiles. Just take any video of a tiny puppy doing just about anything, and you have the right idea. But what about when that tiny ...