Robotics and Human Systems Research—Scientists at the Idaho National Engineering and Environmental Laboratory are creating an army of small robots--a fleet of inexpensive mini-robots designed to work ...

Thousands of emperor penguins cluster on the ice of Atka Bay in Antarctica, mostly unaware that an interloper lives among them. Slightly shorter than the average adult emperor, the 3-foot-tall ...

In the early 2010s, a new trend in robotics began to emerge. Engineers started creating robotic versions of salamanders, dragonflies, octopuses, geckos, and clams — an ecosystem of biomimicry so ...

Engineers have commonly used enormous, tube-like machines outfitted with a terrifying variety of cutting wheels for decades to dig underground tunnels. But now, a British firm called hyperTunnel is ...