"The best thing about this toy is that it walks and says, 'Has anyone seen sheriff Woody?' and his wings pop up. The thing I don't like is that his helmet does not go down." What it is: A box filled ...

Researchers control tiny robots using flexible tethers, enabling group movement without computers—potential for swarms in space and beyond.

Left alone, the toy robots will skitter mindlessly across a ... They explored enclosed spaces, solved mazes with ease, and even rounded up loose objects into patterns. “We wanted to take ...

The octopus is a mollusk, but it is more than a complex wind-up toy, and consciousness is more than accessing ... and today there are a number of projects developing special purpose octopus-like soft ...

Even in the advanced world of 2024, robots are still better in science fiction than in reality. Star Trek gave us the erudite and refined Data, Rogue One gave us the fierce yet funny K-2SO ...

A transformer is essentially a ‘repeater’ for electrical power, made to even out the delivery of electricity in distributed systems. The transformer steps up or steps down the voltage to make it ...

David Morrison, Project Manager at the National Robotarium in Edinburgh, outlines the growing role that robots are playing in keeping wind farms up and running. The UK's offshore wind sector is poised ...

The most engaging toys for 2-year-olds offer lots of different ... which brilliantly does double duty as a racetrack for wind-up cars. Assembling the 48 pieces is just half the entertainment ...

Maintaining offshore wind ... robots to maintain stable contact with offshore structures in challenging conditions. If successful, the technology could transform offshore wind maintenance, potentially ...

The remote inspection and asset management of offshore wind farms and their connection ... will allow problems to be picked up early, when easy and inexpensive maintenance will allow problems to be ...

marking what it called a “major milestone in robotic wind turbine maintenance.” The trials saw Aerone technicians deploy its advanced submersible winch system to enable its robots to perform ...

“They have mastered language skills to determine how the world works and, while we’re not interested in the slugs, bugs and worms that make up the ground ... morph into robot toys that ...