MIT engineers have designed a walking lunar robot cleverly inspired by the animal kingdom. The “mix-and-match” system is made of worm-like robotic limbs astronauts could configure into various ...

Futuristic TV shows, movies, and sci-fi books often have robot characters. It’s a given that this type of technology will be a part of everyday life in the future. If you’d like to give your kids a ...

The WORMS setup offers an alternative, in the form of components that can be mixed and matched to make whatever robot is needed. Its name an acronym for "Walking Oligomeric Robotic Mobility System," ...

Scientists have been trying to build snakelike, limbless robots for decades. These robots could come in handy in search-and-rescue situations, where they could navigate collapsed buildings to find and ...

This work was supported by the National Science Foundation Physics of Living Systems Student Research Network, NSF-Simons Southeast Center for Mathematics and Biology, Army Research Office Grant, and ...