ARLINGTON, Va. – U.S. military researchers are approaching industry to find ways of integrating synthetic and biological components to design bio-hybrid robots that outperform traditional robots.

Mother Nature spent millions of years perfecting the maple seed’s gentle spiral to the ...

BALTIMORE, Md. – In looking for creative inspiration, engineering student Qiyuan Fu finds it in a box, with an interesting occupant. Inside: a real, live snake. “We can definitely learn something from ...

If you put a robot vacuum in a living room, it will meticulously map the baseboards. Move a single armchair, however, and the machine may spin in confused circles, trapped by its own digital blueprint ...

If you’re going to kill animals for food, don’t waste their parts – that’s just rude. Use everything, snout-to-tail, and not just bones for glue or stomachs for drink-bags, either. Get creative! And ...

Researchers are calling for regulation to guide the responsible and ethical development of bio-hybrid robotics – a ground-breaking science which fuses artificial components with living tissue and ...

In the middle of the night, when stumbling into the kitchen for a glass of water, I rely on touch. Even in the dark, my fingers can feel the handrails—alerting me to a flight of stairs—the walls, the ...