EPFL roboticists have shown that when a modular robot shares power, sensing, and communication resources among its individual ...

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 ...

Modular self-reconfigurable robotics encompasses systems in which individual robotic units can autonomously adjust their configuration to adapt to varying tasks and environmental conditions. These ...

EPFL researchers have built a modular robot that becomes more reliable as it gains ...

What is it about a cheetah's build that enables it to run so fast? What gives the wolf its exceptional endurance? While these questions can be partly answered through animal experiments, many ...

The Interactive and Robotic Systems Lab (IRS) group at the Universitat Jaume I of Castelló has developed a mobile, lightweight, modular and reconfigurable manipulator robot, which includes a remote ...

NASA Ames team created and tested prefabricated voxels standardized reconfigurable building blocks. They built a set of 256 of those blocks—extremely strong 3D structures made with a ...

The Walking Oligomeric Robotic Mobility System, or WORMS, is a reconfigurable, modular, multiagent robotics architecture for extreme lunar terrain mobility. The system could be used to assemble ...

To address this challenge, the PKU team developed a reconfigurable, modular soft robotic fish with controllable body stiffness. Understanding how fish balance speed, efficiency, and agility is a ...

Researchers at the University of Michigan have developed a modular, open-source robot that can ...

Beyond Japan, PIX's city robots are now operating in diverse scenarios including public road services, community shuttles, campuses, industrial parks, and tourism zones, demonstrating the adaptability ...

MIT engineers have designed a walking lunar robot cleverly inspired by the animal kingdom. The “mix-and-match” system is made of worm-like robotic limbs astronauts could configure into various ...