- Lighting-fast bio-inspired robots are easy for anyone to build BERKELEY, CALIF. (September 5, 2013) – Dash Robotics today unveiled a new high performance, low-cost "origami" robot that runs fast on ...

Adding legs to robots that have minimal awareness of the environment around them can help the robots operate more effectively in difficult terrain, my colleagues and I found. We were inspired by ...

3D printers have become a staple in most makerspaces these days, enabling hackers to rapidly produce simple mechanical prototypes without the need for a dedicated machine shop. We’ve seen many ...

The Robotics and AI Institute (RAI) has just released a video of its Roadrunner robot. Although it lacks a torso, the bipedal bot more than makes up for it by rolling, stomping, stair-climbing, and ...

For a tiny bug-shaped robot made of cardboard and plastic, Dash is surprisingly advanced. The new $65 DIY programmable robot is built for tinkering. It comes with a gyroscope, visible light and ...

In the future, you may go to a "Robo Kinkos" store to have your robots printed. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology today announced a five-year research initiative to let people design ...