Abstract: This paper aims to analyze the motion behavior of an origami robot with a coupled bar-hinge mechanism. By disassembling the planar six-hinge mechanism into two planar four-hinge mechanisms ...

A team of engineers at Harvard and MIT have created a robot that assembles itself in little more than four minutes and then crawls away — with no human help.The team of engineers and computer ...

Imagine soft robots scurrying through rubble with the agility of geckos or leaping over obstacles with the dynamism of frogs—capabilities that would prove invaluable in post-disaster rescue and ...

Abstract: Distributed optimization provides a framework for deriving distributed algorithms for a variety of multi-robot problems. This tutorial constitutes the first part of a two-part series on ...

Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. At CES 2026, we put the robots to the test to see whether they’re ready for real homes — or still stuck in demo ...

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