One of the challenges that researchers in robotics face is creating robotic arms and gripers that can handle objects of varied sizes and shapes. Researchers at Harvard have developed a robot that can ...

Over the last few years, Virginia Tech scientists have been looking to the octopus for inspiration to design technologies that can better grip a wide variety of objects in underwater environments.

Most three-dimensional glass objects are produced via either a molding, blowing or 3D-printing process. Chinese scientists, however, have devised a technique of folding such items into shape – and it ...

Image by LauMarghe The BioRobotics Institute, Scuola Superiore, Pisa, Italy CC BY 3.0 Image by LauMarghe The BioRobotics Institute, Scuola Superiore, Pisa, Italy CC BY 3.0 Using mechanisms inspired by ...

Graduate students at the University of Tokyo have outdone themselves and are changing the way we look at drones with their newest invention. They created a group of futuristic-looking drone prototypes ...

On display during Milan Design Week are the objects that’ve inspired everyone from Naoto Fukasawa to Her set designer K.K. Barrett, including electric tape, a sewing machine, and vintage pamphlets ...

An artist known for a Floating Museum on the Chicago River is inviting the community to help create a celebration of trees in the Hinsdale Public Library. Jeremiah Hulsebos-Spofford, a visual artist ...

Nature is an endless source of inspiration for robot design, so of course flying robots will borrow heavily from birds. Engineers at Stanford have now developed robotic claws inspired by the talons of ...

Using mechanisms inspired by nature to create new technological innovations is a signature of one Virginia Tech research team. The group led by Associate Professor Michael Bartlett has created an ...

“What inspired this piece?” spectators and reporters will inevitably ask of the work they see at Milan Design Week, where hundreds of the world’s most talented designers are currently in attendance.