it uses small motors and gearboxes to drive the wheels, with some of the gears being 3D printed. [Shane] has posted the full details of this cute little robot, complete with 3D models, code ...

So when a team of five students from UC Davis got together and built a machine that got the job done with two hooks, some very clever gears, and two motors, we have to say that we’re impressed.

move and follow electromagnetic commands like a remotely controlled robot, even though it lacks any motor or internal gears. "You can transform between a material and a robot, and it is ...

Until now, typical micro flying robots have used motors, gears and other complex transmission systems to achieve the up-and-down motion of the wings. This has added complexity, weight and ...

Engineers at Princeton University in New Jersey, USA, have developed strange new 'metabots' that can change shape, move and dance without motors or gears. Controlled entirely by magnetic fields ...

But these won't be typical robots with gears and motors; they will instead be made of carefully designed chemical shells-within-shells, with receptors on their surface. Instead of software and ...

Robot. Death (or at least maiming) to the losers. The winner takes home a 20-pound trophy of a brass gear and claims championship ... an aluminum blind strip and a motor. They were graded over ...

Kurt “CyberGuy" Knutsson talks about a soft, vine-like robot called SPROUT that aids safe survivor rescues in collapsed buildings.

It has mastered the side flip. Remember when Unitree's H1 robot shocked us all by performing a backflip using electric motors? Well, they've taken it up a notch with the G1. This little dynamo ...