Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania have come up with a new way to power robots. It's somewhere between a battery and a harvester. Their prototype, known as the metal-air scavenger, can pack ...

Since fans first clapped eyes on the T-1000, the shape-shifting antagonist from 1991’s Terminator 2: Judgment Day, many people have been eagerly anticipating the day in which liquid metal robots ...

Somewhere in a laboratory, something is squirming. It’s an eel robot, swimming silently through an enormous darkened saltwater tank; its rhythmic, ribbon-like motions echoing those of its natural ...

T-1000? The killer assassin android on a special mission to murder the teenaged John Connor? That T-1000? Thankfully, it wasn’t T-1000’s killer instincts that prompted Xiangpeng. Instead it was the ...

BEIJING, CHINA - It may look like nothing more than a small ball of metal, but the shape-shifting and self-propulsion abilities of a liquid metal alloy discovered by scientists at China's Tsinghua ...

Batteries have served us well over decades, but as electronic devices shrink they’re becoming too heavy and inefficient for some uses. Now, researchers at the University of Pennsylvania have developed ...

Although the world of 3D printing is hurtling through milestones at the moment, to a large extent the technology still remains in its infancy. If you thought it was all Etsy jewellery and plastic toys ...

In summer 2025, you read a news item about plans for humanoid robots to be deployed in South Korean shipyards to tackle ...

This 'metal-eating' robot can follow a metal path without using a computer or needing a battery. By wiring the power-supplying units to the wheels on the opposite side, the robot autonomously ...