We've all been there. It's a dark, lonely place—when you're sitting on the throne, looking to wrap things up, and you look over to see an empty toilet paper roll. You can't exactly hike up your pants ...

WASHINGTON — In what may be the birth of cheap, easy-to-make robots, researchers have created complex machines that transform themselves from little more than a sheet of paper and plastic into walking ...

Using paper coated with silicon resin and iron particles, researchers created an untethered soft robot that can move without any electronics. This magnetically controlled device can detect heavy metal ...

Researchers at Purdue University have created a magnetic "ferropaper" that might be used to make low-cost "micromotors" for surgical instruments, tiny tweezers to study cells and miniature speakers.

Athletes jumping off a diving board. A duck circling a pond. Planets rotating in space. What do all these things have in common? They—or at least, their robotic representations—are products of a ...

Remember that high speed robot from last year, that could beat humans at rock, paper, scissors? Since then, researchers at the University of Tokyo's Ishikawa Oku Lab have continued to work on it. The ...

If you love robotics sets or enjoy papercraft projects, then odds are that you'll get giddy as soon as you see the reDIYmate kits. After all, they combine the best of those two worlds and allow you to ...

As far as plant names go, the sleepy plant—or shy plant, or shameplant, known more formally as Mimosa pudica—is hard to beat. Touch one of its leaves and it curls up like it’s embarrassed, the ...

Researchers have created a magnetic "ferropaper" that might be used to make low-cost "micromotors" for surgical instruments, tiny tweezers to study cells and miniature speakers. Researchers at Purdue ...