Watch as designing a Batarang involves solving the challenge of creating a projectile that is both portable and functional.

Different species of spiders produce different silks that serve different purposes, from floating on air to cradling eggs. The triangle weaver spider, Hyptiotes cavatus, weaves and holds a three-sided ...

Engineers in China have designed an adaptive robotic gripper that uses spring-loaded parallelogram linkages and a dual-motor ...