PITTSBURGH (KDKA) -- A team from Carnegie Mellon University's Biorobotics Lab created a robot that can swim. The snake-like robot was developed to inspect Navy ships. CMU says the robot's narrow and ...

(Nanowerk News) Carnegie Mellon University's acclaimed snake-like robot can now slither its way underwater, allowing the modular robotics platform to inspect ships, submarines and infrastructure for ...

The Harvard Biorobotics Lab wants to revolutionize robots, although their lab—decked out with a ping pong table, a whiteboard covered in doodles, and Baxter, a decorative robot wearing a graduation ...

Five years ago, Marketplace explored how machines, robots and software algorithms were increasingly entering the workforce in our series “Robots Ate My Job.” Now, we’re looking at what humans can do ...

Image: Raven, the mobile surgical robot developed in the UW’s BioRobotics Lab, weighs about 50 pounds. Its nimble appendages can suture wounds and perform minimally invasive surgeries. The surgical ...

Obama is making the nerd cool again: this June in Washington D.C., President Obama pledged $70 million for robotics research. Here in Cambridge, the Harvard BioRobotics Laboratory is on the brink of ...

We’re still a long way from owning furniture that transforms as easily as Optimus Prime, but a group of researchers from the Biorobotics Laboratory at École Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne are ...

Founded by roboticists from the Harvard Biorobotics Lab, MIT and Yale, RightHand Robotics raised a total of $99 million in funding. Somerville robotics startup's new funding round nearly ...

Using simulations, robots, and live fish, scientists at EPFL and Duke University have replicated the neural circuitry that allows zebrafish to react to visual stimuli and maintain their position in ...

A robotic snake developed by researchers at Carnegie Mellon University has suddenly gained a frightening new power— the ability to hug things. Last week, the university’s Biorobotics Laboratory ...