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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

If you’re anything like me, you’ve grown up on a big dose of sci-fi films like Terminator 2, where T-1000 could self-heal from any wounds, including bullet shots and blade slashes. While not as ...

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 ...