Author: Matt Simon

At over six feet tall, Bossa Nova navigates the aisles of Walmart on its own, blasting shelves with light and snapping photos.

Researchers detail how an implantable robot could tug on organs to lengthen them, a potential treatment for two traumatic childhood disorders.

The highly modified feathers of a male bird of paradise absorb 99.95 percent of light, creating an astonishingly dark black.

A wild hallucinogen may lead to new painkillers and help change how synthetic chemists work, and, oddly enough, how they publish their science.

A new variety of robotic “muscle" uses oil-fueled pouches activated with electricity to flex.

Humanity has unleashed its own version of “life” on Earth: robots that are evolving in ways that are fascinatingly similar to biological organisms.

Five-foot-tall, 400-pound robots are on a mission to take a bite out of crime. The path there, though, is fraught with ethical pitfalls.

Meet Kengoro, the humanoid that is strikingly lifelike not just in how it looks, but how it moves.

They escaped the factory floor and started conquering big cities to deliver food. Self-driving cars swarmed the streets. And even bipedal robots strolled out of the lab and into the real world.

A new study mathematically models the real problem with traffic: You’re not keeping the right distance from the car behind you.