A software engineer’s earnest effort to steer his new DJI robot vacuum with a video game controller inadvertently granted him ...

Northwestern Engineering researchers have developed the smallest-ever remote-controlled walking robot — and it comes in the form of a tiny, adorable peekytoe crab. Just a half-millimeter wide, the ...

Engineers at Northwestern University in Evanston, Ill., announced they have created what they believe is "the smallest-ever remote-controlled walking robot." The robot resembles a tiny crab and ...

How small is Northwestern University’s robot crab? It’s sit-on-the-side-of-a-penny small. It’s half a millimeter wide — making it even smaller than a common flea. Researchers behind it have determined ...

People strolling along the Chicago River this summer might spot an unfamiliar watercraft navigating the North Branch. In an effort to attack the river’s pollution, Urban Rivers, a Chicago-based ...

A British surgeon has successfully conducted the first heart rhythm operation using a remote-controlled robot. The feat paves the way for patients to undergo surgery by doctors located in other cities ...

This tiny but mighty robot just nailed its first surgery demo in zero gravity up in space this weekend. On Saturday, surgeons from Lincoln, Nebraska, remotely controlled a two-pound robot, known as ...

BOT or NOT? This special series explores the evolving relationship between humans and machines, examining the ways that robots, artificial intelligence and automation are impacting our work and lives.

Researchers at the University of Tokyo and Keio University have created a robotic system called Fusion that's worn on a user's back and operated remotely. Fusion is a telepresence robot with two arms ...

It's never a good thing, when a bacterial biofilm forms on the surface of a medical implant. There could soon be a new way of eradicating such films, however, using tiny remote-control liquid-bodied ...