When Allegra Fischer got married last November, her niece was the flower girl. Like most, her niece was a bit awkward going down the aisle, but Allegra's sister stood in the wings and encouraged the ...

Researchers have built a flower-shaped robot that can pick up objects more than 100 times its own weight. The robot has an origami "magic ball" skeleton, and its main advantage is that it's able to ...

is a senior reporter who has covered AI, robotics, and more for eight years at The Verge. If someone asked you to imagine a robot, says Daniela Rus, a professor at MIT’s Computer Science and ...

Some consumers may be geting a Mother’s Day surprise, as gifted flowers arrive inside a robot. The nearly two-foot high robots travel around four miles an hour and already have delivered food and ...

Honeybee populations are declining at a terrifying rate. This poses a significant threat to agriculture, the economy, and pretty much life as we know it, due to bees’ crucial role as some of the ...

A tiny, flexible machine might one day help neuroscientists eavesdrop on electrical activity in the brain, allowing them to pinpoint and potentially treat seizures. Inserted into the skull through a ...

An ultrafine robot that senses its surroundings and moves like a living organism has been created. It is expected to mark a new turning point in medicine and environmental fields. A research team at ...

Shape shifts happen all around you. Cells stretch, tissues curl, and living structures shift their form as naturally as breathing. Scientists have tried to copy those abilities for years, hoping to ...

It can be hard to get bees to do their vital work in indoor farms or greenhouses. Instead, the plants may need a little robotic assistance to reproduce. Out in a field, tomato plants are pollinated ...

NOORDWIJKERHOUT, Netherlands -- Theo works weekdays, weekends and nights and never complains about a sore spine despite performing hour upon hour of what, for a regular farmhand, would be backbreaking ...