ARLINGTON, Va. – U.S. military researchers are approaching industry to find ways of integrating synthetic and biological components to design bio-hybrid robots that outperform traditional robots.

Mother Nature spent millions of years perfecting the maple seed’s gentle spiral to the ...

BALTIMORE, Md. – In looking for creative inspiration, engineering student Qiyuan Fu finds it in a box, with an interesting occupant. Inside: a real, live snake. “We can definitely learn something from ...

If you’re going to kill animals for food, don’t waste their parts – that’s just rude. Use everything, snout-to-tail, and not just bones for glue or stomachs for drink-bags, either. Get creative! And ...

If you put a robot vacuum in a living room, it will meticulously map the baseboards. Move a single armchair, however, and the machine may spin in confused circles, trapped by its own digital blueprint ...

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 ...

In the middle of the night, when stumbling into the kitchen for a glass of water, I rely on touch. Even in the dark, my fingers can feel the handrails—alerting me to a flight of stairs—the walls, the ...