Bipedal robots have found navigating uneven terrain a steep challenge but a new hardware upgrade means they can detect their environment and respond quicker than ever before.

An origami-inspired robot arm made with material from cotton plants and pigs biodegrades when no longer needed. Such a soft ...

A new Yale study provides a fuller picture of the genetic changes that shaped the evolution of the human brain, and how the ...

Lifelike human motion could enable robots to complete far more tasks, as well as adapt to environments they've not been ...

Three people with a muscle-destroying disease destined to worsen got a little stronger when an implanted device zapped their ...

Bouncing back from under the weight of Ice Age glaciers which have long since vanished, the Nordic region land mass is slowly ...

Our 11-year-old son is fascinated with those astronauts who are stuck on the space station. He asks about a lot is how being ...

Being conducted by the European Space Agency (ESA), the study will see volunteers not using their feet for 60 days in a bid ...

Our 11- year-old son is fascinated with those astronauts who are stuck on the space station. Dear Reader: You are referring to two American astronauts who arrived at the International Space Station ...