Scientists created robots controlled by signals come from mycelia - the branching underground networks that support mushrooms ...

This robot beast is powered by an engine that drives a hydraulic actuation system, and there's an onboard computer controlling locomotion and handling a variety of sensors.

Researchers at Virginia Tech are developing a way to use computer algorithms and sensors to help robot animals move more naturally like their real-life counterparts. Kaveh Hamed and his colleagues ...

TakkTile is an inexpensive new sensor that gives robots a sense of touch.

This novel robot was developed as part of an instrument developed under NSF MRI 1450342 and is used by projects in the NSF Center for Robots and Sensors for the Human Well Being (RoSeHUB) NSF 1439717.

The team is working on artificial “flow sensors” that can be added to robots, creating bendable systems that vibrate in the wind. Receptors at the base of the whisker can then be read and ...

A robot able to “smell” using a biological sensor The researchers say that the biological sensor sensitivity to smell is 10,000 times higher than that of existing electronic devices.

Scientists have built a dog-sized robot with four-legs which learns how to walk. Just like young animals stumble and stutter as they get their bearings on their legs for the first time, the robot ...

Imagine mobile sensor networks that run around, jump and maneuver in the air to get the job done. That's what Jianguo Zhao is working towards; his design for such networks involves biologically ...

SPCA educators show students video footage of real animals and talk about why and how these animals are special, drawing comparisons between the sensor packages in the robots and the nature-made ...

Humans have worked alongside animals for centuries. So why are we so obsessed with comparing robots to ourselves?