Nasa robot returning to US for Mars trip after decade of research in Scotland - The University of Edinburgh’s Centre of Robotics has honed Valkyrie’s capabilities over the last 10 years.

ASU and Freeport are building robots and sensors to speed copper sorting and shrink processing waste in Arizona.

This research advances hybrid soft-rigid robot simulations, achieving up to 1000 times faster computations through analytical derivatives in the GVS framework.

The tiny bots follow patterns of light and "artificial space-time," navigating like craft following the curved space around a black hole.