Bacteria-scale robots that can run for months without human control are no longer a lab fantasy. Researchers have now built ...
TOKYO -- An underwater robot entered a damaged reactor at Japan's crippled Fukushima nuclear plant Wednesday, capturing images of the effect of its meltdown, including key structures that were torn ...
Far below the reach of sunlight, a deep-sea robot descended to 1,300 m and sent back images of something that, on paper, ...
The robot is hard to see without a microscope. It’s small enough to rest on the ridge of a fingerprint and can operate in ...
TOKYO (AP) — Robot probes sent to one of Japan’s wrecked Fukushima nuclear reactors have suggested worse-than-anticipated challenges for the plant’s ongoing cleanup. The plant’s operator Tokyo ...
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Engineers who specialize in building NASA spacecraft to explore distant worlds are designing a fleet of underwater robot probes to measure how rapidly climate change is melting ...
Robots that move, sense and even coordinate with one another usually bring to mind tangled wires, circuit boards and humming ...
Scientists are striving to discover new semiconductor materials that could boost the efficiency of solar cells and other electronics. But the pace of innovation is bottlenecked by the speed at which ...