Researchers at Penn and the University of Michigan have developed the world’s smallest, fully autonomous robots. The health ...

In a move that inches us just a little closer to the singularity, engineers have developed robots that can grow, self-repair, and morph by absorbing parts from other robots. They can also help their ...

Today's robots are stuck—their bodies are usually closed systems that can neither grow nor self-repair, nor adapt to their environment. Now, scientists at Columbia University have developed robots ...

Each unit has multiple points to which another unit can attach itself: 18 of them, to be precise, which means that just two ...