A robot being developed at Duke University is almost ready to face the world, in any direction.Instead of trying to copy symmetrical shapes from nature by building robots that look like people, dogs ...

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BALTIMORE, Md. – In looking for creative inspiration, engineering student Qiyuan Fu finds it in a box, with an interesting occupant. Inside: a real, live snake. “We can definitely learn something from ...

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We might only be a month into 2026 but a key trend that’s standing out – for both good and bad reasons – is the emergence of household robots. Many of them were seen walking around CES 2026 which took ...

Before the first human boot sinks into Martian dust, an army of machines will have already been at work for years, testing the air, carving out shelter and assembling the hardware that keeps people ...