Marine scientists are witnessing a technological revolution in ocean cleanup. Revolutionary systems are transforming how we ...

When old food packaging, discarded children’s toys and other mismanaged plastic waste break down into microplastics, they become even harder to clean up from oceans and waterways. These tiny bits of ...

(Nanowerk News) Scientists in South Korea have developed swarms of tiny magnetic robots that work together like ants to achieve Herculean feats, including traversing and picking up objects many times ...

New swarms of “ant-like” robots are able to lift heavy objects and hurl themselves over obstacles. The tiny magnetic automatons, developed by scientists in South Korea, work together like insects to ...

In response to a short pulse of near-infrared light, the robot released the pebble. Further, the light produced heat triggered a shape change that forced the robot to unfold. The robot then returned ...

The next generation of soft robots might be folding and sliding as effortlessly as living tissue, say a team of engineers who ...

Unmanned underwater vehicles mimic nature and collaborate on tasks. Robotics experts are using the swarming behavior of insects and fish as a model for software that will operate the next generation ...

A new 3D printing technique can create paper-thin "magnetic muscles," which can be applied to origami structures to make them ...

Engineers have built multi-legged robots capable of maneuvering in challenging environments and accomplishing difficult tasks collectively, mimicking their natural-world counterparts. As a robotics ...

It was a good week for space science as an international team of astronomers used NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite to watch as a white dwarf switched on and off. Also, another team made up ...