Engineers at Northwestern University in Evanston, Ill., announced they have created what they believe is "the smallest-ever remote-controlled walking robot." The robot resembles a tiny crab and ...

Northwestern Engineering researchers have developed the smallest-ever remote-controlled walking robot — and it comes in the form of a tiny, adorable peekytoe crab. Just a half-millimeter wide, the ...

People strolling along the Chicago River this summer might spot an unfamiliar watercraft navigating the North Branch. In an effort to attack the river’s pollution, Urban Rivers, a Chicago-based ...

How small is Northwestern University’s robot crab? It’s sit-on-the-side-of-a-penny small. It’s half a millimeter wide — making it even smaller than a common flea. Researchers behind it have determined ...

This tiny but mighty robot just nailed its first surgery demo in zero gravity up in space this weekend. On Saturday, surgeons from Lincoln, Nebraska, remotely controlled a two-pound robot, known as ...

BOT or NOT? This special series explores the evolving relationship between humans and machines, examining the ways that robots, artificial intelligence and automation are impacting our work and lives.

It's never a good thing, when a bacterial biofilm forms on the surface of a medical implant. There could soon be a new way of eradicating such films, however, using tiny remote-control liquid-bodied ...

TOKYO >> Japanese konbini (convenience stores): Source of wacky culinary delights. Eternal beacons of hope. And now, humanoid robot staff. Last month, convenience store chain FamilyMart tested ...

Before the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant (ChNPP, spelled ‘Chornobyl’ in Ukrainian) disaster in 1986, there had been little need for radiation-resistant robots to venture into high-risk zones. The MF-2 ...

A humanoid robot rallies tennis shots with a human player in real time, using AI to track and respond without scripts or ...

UK surgeons remotely removed a man’s prostate cancer from 1,500 miles away in the country’s first successful robot-assisted telesurgery.