(Nanowerk News) If the new nano-machines built at The Ohio State University look familiar, it's because they were designed with full-size mechanical parts such as hinges and pistons in mind. The ...

When Carlos Castro and Haijun Su started working as assistant professors in the engineering department at Ohio State, they didn’t know that just a few years later, they would be creating what some are ...

In tests, the small shape- changing robot folded itself into a functional machine that could walk and turn without human help. But unlike Transformers toys — robots that disguise themselves as cars ...

Origami robots may be the next great revolution in automated technology. Starting from a flat plane, the tiny robot can fold itself into a three-dimensional form, and start traveling in less than five ...

Mechanical engineers have taken inspiration from Iron Man’s morphing suit and the Transformers’ mutating, robotic bodies to create a new first-of-its-kind set of mechanisms. This new class of ...

Just as one might don a wet suit to work underwater or a spacesuit to work in space, researchers are designing exoskeletons for robots so the machines can wear a variety of outfits tailored to ...