If your big kids love “The Wild Robot” series, your little ones will adore this new picture book version for young readers.

The robotic rat, which Shi and his colleagues developed, has two front arms, a bionic spine capable of bending into many different body postures, and wheels instead of hind legs to boost the robot ...

Moreover, it has a bionic spine, which gives the robot flexibility to move in a variety of ways, similar to a real rat. It can bend and twist, allowing for natural-looking movements.

Robots that act like rat pups can tell us something about the behavior of both, according to UC Davis researchers. Sanjay Joshi, assistant professor of mechanical and aeronautical engineering, and ...

Scientists have developed an innovative robot rat which can seek out and identify objects using its whiskers. The SCRATCHbot robot will be demonstrated at an international workshop looking at how ...

Robots that act like rat pups can tell us something about the behavior of both, according to UC Davis researchers. Sanjay Joshi, assistant professor of mechanical and aeronautical engineering, and ...

Here's a sad thought for you: The rat robot (ratbot?) in the photo above was created solely to bully real rats until they're depressed. This might sound like the work of a sadistic behavioral ...

A new robot stingray can swim with help from an unexpected source: muscle cells that were taken from rat hearts, a new study finds. Understanding how to build machines from heart cells could lead ...

A robot controlled by a simulated rat brain has proved itself to be a remarkable mimic of rodent behaviour in series of classic animal experiments. The robot’s biologically-inspired control ...

The robot is powered by the contraction of 200,000 genetically engineered rat heart-muscle cells grown on the underside of the bot.

In an astonishing blend of robotics and nature, SMEO—a robot rat designed by researchers in China and Germany — is fooling real rats into treating it like one of their own. What sets SMEO ...