Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Researchers at UC Santa Barbara and TU Dresden are pioneering a new approach to robotics by creating a collective of small robots ...

“We’ve figured out a way for robots to behave more like a material,” said Matthew Devlin, a former doctoral researcher in the lab of UCSB mechanical engineering professor Elliot Hawkes, and the lead ...

Researchers are blurring the lines between robotics and materials, with a proof-of-concept material-like collective of robots with behaviors inspired by biology. Researchers at UC Santa Barbara and TU ...

Swarms of hive mind-like robots can be induced to behave more like a material, new research has shown. The robots in question are (mostly) cylindrical, with a diameter of just 2.75 inches (70 ...

With their bright blue bases, yellow gears, and exposed circuit tops, the 3D-printed robots look like a child’s toys. Yet as a roughly two-dozen-member collective, they can flow around obstacles ...

(Santa Barbara, Calif.) — Researchers at UC Santa Barbara and TU Dresden are blurring the lines between robotics and materials, with a proof-of-concept material-like collective of robots with ...