When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. It sounds like something from a 19th-century sci-fi novel: A Mars robot with a metallic ...

An egg-cracking beam relies on a hyperelastic torque reversal mechanism similar to that used by mantis shrimp and jumping fleas. Credit: Seoul National University. We usually think of robots as being ...

The fancy robot arm that your neighborhood's garbage truck is likely to use has a name other than "the claw," which is what I've called it for years. These robot arms are actually called automated ...