(Nanowerk Spotlight) Of course, most robots can change directions, speeds – some can even change their colors. But what about changing their shapes? Researchers are beginning to create robots that can ...

While humans need the right tools for the right job, some robots simply need the right outfit to roll, carry, push, and even glide. Primer, a tiny magnetic bot developed by researchers at MIT's ...

(Nanowerk News) When danger approaches, the Moroccan flic-flac spider takes the shape of a ball and rolls away to safety. Just as the trick of shape-shifting to one’s environment has proved invaluable ...

But shape-shifting robots, which are controlled by magnetic fields, can dynamically squish, bend, or elongate their entire bodies. "Such a robot could have thousands of small pieces of muscle to ...

Robots may very well be stronger, faster, and sometimes smarter than us humans, but we’ve got something on them yet. Namely, a skeletal system and tendons. For all the stuff our mechanical ...

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Engineers and even the U.S. military have been seeking shape-shifting robots that can squeeze into tight spaces, such as cracks under doors in a disaster zone or between delicate parts of a human body ...