Robots are everywhere in our imaginations—helping older adults at home, stocking warehouses, cleaning offices, and taking on dangerous jobs that humans shouldn’t have to do. Yet outside of factories ...

Traditional hydraulics are falling away, as electric lift systems and quasi-direct drive (QDD) motors enable smarter, more precise motion control in warehouse automation, pallets and platforms for ...

Engineers attempting to build microscopic robots face a strict physical trade-off: as mechanical devices shrink, their ...

For centuries, people tried to build ornithopters that flapped like birds, but none became a practical path to human flight.

Engineers have long tried to build artificial muscles that work like the ones in the human body—strong, flexible, fast, and ...