Team demonstrates a pump they made into a heart, mimicking both shape and function

Work expands the general applicability of researchers' resistive force theory of terradynamics

Because of its light weight, dexterity and strength, robotic design offers advantages over traditional mechanisms

Researchers demonstrate a novel method to build microscopic robots with complex shapes and functionalities

New robotic lawn mowing technology aims to deliver freshly cut yards with little set-up.

Controlled by magnetic fields, tiny robot climbs inclines, swims, and carries loads twice its weight

The microtubes are just 8 millimeters long and less than a hundredth of an inch wide. 

Data from 20 million cells collected by U of T researchers to develop detailed cell map.

There’s an urgent demand for new antimicrobial compounds that are effective against constantly emerging drug-resistant bacteria. Two robotic chemical-synthesizing machines, named Symphony X and Overture, have joined the search. Their specialty is creating custom nanoscale structures that mimic nature’s proven designs. They’re also fast, able to assemble dozens of compounds at a time.

Neural prosthetic devices implanted in the brain's movement center, the motor cortex, can allow patients with amputations or paralysis to control the movement of a robotic limb—one that can be either connected to or separate from the patient's own limb. However, current neuroprosthetics produce motion that is delayed and jerky—not the smooth and seemingly automatic gestures associated with natural movement. Now, by implanting neuroprosthetics in a part of the brain that controls not the movement directly but rather our intent to move, Caltech researchers have developed a way to produce more natural and fluid motions.