Combine two things that every kid loves, shapes and robots, to make this cute shapes robot craft. Break your box at the seams and open it inside out. It's best to use a box with no writing on the ...

NEW HAVEN – What swims in water and walks on land, and has a shell and morphing limbs? A turtle. But instead of bone, flesh and cartilage, this creature consists of hardware, plastic, silicone and ...

Imagine running on a cement footpath, and then suddenly through dry sand. Just to keep upright, you would have to slow down and change the way you run. In the same way, a walking robot would have to ...

If Oscar Wilde was right and life imitates art, I wonder what he’d have thought of milli-motein, a tiny robotic device designed with biological proteins in mind, and able to fold itself into any shape ...

In all, the robot can morph from about 34 millimeters (1.3 inches) wide in its square shape to about 21 millimeters (0.8 inches) wide in its elongated form. Unlike Jayaram's earlier mechanized ...