UCSC alumna Lisa Winter (Porter ’09, art) brings an artist’s eye to the arena of combat robotics—evolving from childhood Robot Wars competitor to BattleBots judge and robotics entrepreneur.

The challenges, such as opening a door with a round doorknob, started out easy, at least for a human, and progressed to “gold ...

Sci-fi is thriving in the 2020s, thanks to instantly iconic characters like Dune's Paul Atreides, Poor Things' Bella Baxter, ...

Rice is a staple food for billions of people, but scientists have now discovered it could also inspire a new generation of smart materials. Researchers led by the University of Birmingham found that ...

Researchers have commanded swarms of magnetic microrobots to manipulate, rotate, and assemble objects without ever making ...

E pluribus unum—"out of many, one"—is not only a motto for the United States; it's a good credo for microrobots. A research collaboration between Cornell and the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent ...

Recent technological advances have opened new possibilities for the development of advanced medical devices, including tiny ...

Nutroplex MarketPlays: The Playground for Future CEOs, organized by Unilab, was held on January 24–25, 2026, at Greenhills ...

KidWorks USA, at 8155 W. 28th Avenue, offers classroom programs from pre‑kindergarten through 7th grade and plans to add 8th grade next year. And now, the school is introducing AI to students in an ...

The Evolving Landscape Of Humanoid Robots. It feels like just yesterday we were marveling at robots that could barely walk in a straight line. Now, here we are in 2025, and the la ...

Robotics are evolving from task-specific machines to intelligent, scalable systems integrated into manufacturing infrastructure. AI system enables verbal commands to create 3D objects, reducing ...

Reproducibility is a particular challenge for soft robotics, yet remains a core part of its development and maturation as a field. This perspective dives into reproducibility: what it is, what it ...