POUGHKEEPSIE, N.Y. -- Robots wag their tail fins and bob along like bathtub toys in a pool at a Vassar College lab. Their actions are dictated by microprocessors housed in round plastic containers, ...

UC Berkeley might be able to claim the title of ‘world’s fastest turning robot‘ and it’s all thanks to an innovation that Mother Nature came up even well before the dinosaurs: a wagging tail. It turns ...

While researching AI robotics I came across this interesting robotic human tail developed by researchers at Keio University in Japan a few years ago. The Arque robotic tail aims to augment human ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. The concept of a robot dog has been around ...

While exploring how best to design robots that use tails to reorient their bodies in midair, a team of researchers at the University of Michigan and University of California San Diego found that ...

You may not know what a springtail is but man, those little things can jump! Scientists have now copied the creatures' jumping mechanism in a small robot that could one day explore places that people ...

The hottest toy this holiday season may be a robot dog that whimpers, blinks its eyes, wags its tail and responds to a rub on the head. The only thing Dog-E won’t do is soil that expensive rug – ...

At last! Finally someone has come up with a pair of brain-controlled furry robot cat ears for the masses. This crazy contraption is necomimi, the first experimental prototype from a team in Japan ...

Many people today ask if robots can replace pets. They talk about robots that wag their tails or make soft sounds like ...

An advancement in robotic flight shows how advanced electronics and reconfigurable mechanisms are enabling machines to mimic ...

Instead, Vassar College biology and cognitive science professor John Long and his students can make changes to the tail of Preyro to see which designs help it avoid the predator robot."We're applying ...