The future may see advancements in claytronics, memory metals, and catoms to allow shapeshifting materials that can take on ...

Northwestern Engineering’s Ryan Truby and his team members received a Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Director’s Fellowship, which is presented to selected DARPA Young Faculty ...

Researchers at CU Boulder have created tiny, microorganism-inspired particles that can change their shape and self-propel, ...

Dipangkar Dutta receives funding from US Department of Energy and the National Science Foundation. Imagine an epic video game with your favorite hero as a character. Another character is a ...

Programmable matter and robotic systems represent a dynamic frontier in materials science and robotics, where discrete, often modular units are designed to change their physical properties and ...

A team of scientists from the University of Pennsylvania and the University of Michigan has developed the world's smallest, fully programmable autonomous robot. The robot measures only 200 µm x 300 µm ...