A team led by Northwestern Engineering researchers has developed the first artificial intelligence (AI) to date that can intelligently design robots from scratch. To test the new AI, the researchers ...

Robots are super interesting, but you probably shouldn’t start learning about them with a full-sized industrial SCARA arm or anything. Better to learn with something smaller and simpler to understand.

Sam Kriegman, a professor at Northwestern's McCormick School of Engineering, is something of a local celebrity. He can often be found on television shows explaining the wonders of his new invention – ...

[Lance] loves making simple robots with his laser cutter. He finds great satisfaction from watching his robots operate using fairly simple mechanisms and designs a whole slew of them inspired by ...

Microrobots have long promised precision drug delivery inside the human body, but making them practical has remained difficult. Many designs are complex, expensive to manufacture, or hard to control ...

A lifelong gamer, film fanatic and fan of all things geeky, Andy studied Film and TV Screenwriting at university and achieved a master's degree in Scriptwriting in 2017. As a professional writer, Andy ...

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The Pyxel can be programmed using Python or a graphical programming language called Blockly (Fig. 2). Both provide full access to the movement, controls, and sensors, but Python provides a more ...