Lofland, a professor in and head of the department, foresees a clear division of labor between human scientists and automated systems like this one. While the robots can generate a nearly limitless ...

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If humanoid robots make you a bit queasy — would it help if they had fleshy faces that can smile at you? The uncanny feat is the result of new technology using engineered living skin tissue and ...

Meet ANYmal, a four-legged dog-like robot designed by researchers at ETH Zürich in Switzerland, in hopes of using such robots for search-and-rescue on building sites or disaster areas, among other ...

Members of the 2023 Team Titanium rookie robotics camp had a great time, while learning valuable STEM skills. Courtesy photo Where can kids build robots, develop a love of STEM (science, technology, ...

September 15, 2025 — Virginia Tech researchers received a grant worth more than $500,000 from the National Science Foundation to expand robot theater, an after-school program that helps children ...

COLUMBUS, Ga. (WRBL) — Columbus State University announced today it will begin planning a $22.2 million center for robotics, engineering and space science on its main campus. The university says the ...

A research team develops disinfection robot combining physical wiping and UV-C sterilization. Professor Keehoon Kim and Ph.D. candidate Jaewon Byun from the Department of Mechanical Engineering at ...

Icy ocean worlds like Europa or Enceladus are some of the most promising locations for finding extra-terrestrial life in the Solar System because they host liquid water. But to determine if there is ...

After the state of New Jersey revised its computer science standards in 2020, I was part of a professional learning community tasked with helping educators in all subjects understand the computer ...

Researchers are calling for regulation to guide the responsible and ethical development of bio-hybrid robotics -- a ground-breaking science which fuses artificial components with living tissue and ...

Arapahoe Libraries, a public library system in Colorado, plans to deploy a four-wheeled robot at a new co-working facility in ...