A person-shaped robot liquifies to escape a cage, then cools back into its original shape in a mold placed in the ground outside the bars. Wang and Pan et al. under CC BY-SA Researchers have created a ...

While humans need the right tools for the right job, some robots simply need the right outfit to roll, carry, push, and even glide. Primer, a tiny magnetic bot developed by researchers at MIT's ...

But shape-shifting robots, which are controlled by magnetic fields, can dynamically squish, bend, or elongate their entire bodies. "Such a robot could have thousands of small pieces of muscle to ...

Imagine running on a cement footpath, and then suddenly through dry sand. Just to keep upright, you would have to slow down and change the way you run. In the same way, a walking robot would have to ...

Formless 'slime' robots that shape-change to complete complex tasks – it sounds like science fantasy. However, MIT researchers have developed a machine-learning technique that brings shape-changing ...