NASA’s next space robot doesn't look much like the wheeled or four-legged or humanoid robots that generations of science fiction have dreamed up. More than anything else, it looks like an abstract, ...

What has solid parts and squishes? NASA’s SUPERball robot. A demonstration video shows the bot falling from a loading dock on to the hard pavement a few feet below. Such a fall would damage most heavy ...

Like millions of other kids around the world, after seeing the original trilogy, R2-D2 instantly became my favorite Star Wars character. He seemed like the perfect sidekick, but the real Artoo was ...

Xiaomi is producing a plastic toy robot that you can assemble into different forms, and control with an app. Called the Toy Block, the coding toy appears to rely on Lego-like pieces. The kit will come ...

If you've ever sat on your bedroom floor, smashing your Toy Story figures together and feeling frustrated because they simply wouldn't stack properly to form a giant fighting robot, well boy do we ...

Buckling, the sudden loss of structural stability, is usually the stuff of engineering nightmares. But, as anyone who has ever played with a toy popper knows, buckling also releases a lot of energy.