The devices, which could one day treat children with esophageal atresia and short bowel, were recently tested in pigs.

Scientists engineered biomaterials similar to those chameleons use to change color and applied them to a robot.

The artificially motorized cells may one day help fight cancers in the female reproductive tract.

Magpie-larks trick rivals with solo “duets” to defend territory.

Autonomous molecules that collect, carry, and sort different genetic packages usher in a new era for nucleic-acid robotics. 

Rather than attempting to recreate an insect's dynamic agility with robotics, scientists have created a hybrid that's part dragonfly, part robot. 

A robot replicates the neurological phenomenon that causes people to feel like another person is nearby.

Microroboticists have designed simple sensors based on insect light organs called ocelli to stabilize a miniature flying robot.

Meet a few robots that pose as flesh-and-blood critters to advance science.

A remote-controlled robot helps British surgeons repair heart defects.