Recent advances in AI, robotics, and materials science are converging to create robots that can understand natural language, adapt to new environments, and even heal themselves. From Google's embodied ...

Inspiration can come from just about anywhere. For Robert Shepherd, a roboticist at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, the source was a football injury 20 years ago, when he tore his anterior ...

Students recently unveiled their invention of a robotic actuator -- the 'muscle' that converts energy into a robot's physical movement -- that has the ability to detect punctures or pressure, heal the ...

A soft artificial muscle that can heal itself after electrical failure and bounce back to 91% of its original performance has ...

Fig. (A) An artistic poster depicting the autonomous self-healing phenomenon found in nanoscale Ag. (B, C) Sequential high-resolution TEM images showing the autonomous self-healing processes of a ...