A robot has, for the first time since the 2011 meltdown, retrieved a piece of radioactive fuel from the tsunami-ravaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. The remote-controlled robot, named ...

(Nanowerk Spotlight) The complex community of microorganisms inhabiting the human digestive tract, known as the gut microbiome, plays a vital role in health and disease. In recent years, research into ...

New soft robots can be used to operate in small, confined places like in a pipe or under extreme conditions. Scientists have created a 4D-printed soft robot capable of self-assembly when it is heated.

Robots now see the world with an ease that once belonged only to science fiction. They can recognise objects, navigate ...