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 ...

So, here's how you go about evolving robots. First, buy a fancy computer and set up a virtual world that mimics the real world with the laws of physics - gravity and such -- programmed into it. You ...

"Power of rhythm as a design element in evolution and robotics." ScienceDaily. www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2023 / 10 / 231003173444.htm (accessed January 5, 2026).

Different insects flap their wings in different manners. Understanding the variations between these modes of flight may help scientists design better and more efficient flying robots in the future.

Robots of the future will look nothing like R2D2 in Star Wars, but resemble computer chips embedded in everyday appliances, such as vacuum cleaners and cell phones, if companies like Evolution ...

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

Why can’t a robot do the dishes? Well, it can, but maybe not as well or as cheaply as we’d hoped. More than once, I have started a robotics article with an appeal to the Jetsons tv show of the late ...

The universal scaling of steady locomotion in all media on earth. Credit: Scientific Reports (2023). DOI: 10.1038/s41598-023-41023-6 As the internet quickly fills with viral videos of futuristic ...