A spider robot named Charlotte can 3D-print homes in a day using soil and waste, offering a fast, low-carbon path for future construction.

An Australian company has created a significant evolution of the construction industry in the form of Charlotte, a spider-like robot capable of building houses.

AUSTIN, Texas — A six-legged robotic spider jointly developed by Nanyang Polytechnic of Singapore, Schmid Engineering AG and Analog Devices Inc. (ADI has been designed to support rescue operations.

If robots eventually take over the world, we’ll only have ourselves to blame as we sit trapped inside cocoon-like webs spun by bio-inspired robot spiders. Researchers at the MIT Media Lab have already ...

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Listen, we’re all big fans of science here—but sometimes, science gets it wrong. Case in point: Japanese engineers have created an utterly creepy robot spider that’s also capable of flying around like ...

Engineers at Switzerland's ETH Zurich research institute have created an intriguing and impressive little robot that they call the Magnecko. The robot is inspired by a spider's design while also ...

“Traditional endoscopes cause a lot of discomfort and cannot easily access complex deeper regions inside the body,” Xu told ...

Roboticists are envisioning a future in which soft, animal-inspired robots could be safely deployed in difficult-to-access natural and man-made environments, such as in delicate surgical procedures in ...