At the beginning of May, DARPA announced the eight finalist teams whose robots will duke it out in September at the Louisville Mega Cavern in what is known as the SubT Challenge (Subterranean ...

Engineers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory have designed a flexible robot, inspired by origami, that can flatten itself to crawl into small spaces, scale steep inclines and withstand long falls.

Autonomous systems are developing fast and becoming an important part of many industry sectors, where robots can help drastically reduce costs and perform tasks that were previously challenging.

Engineers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory have designed a flexible robot, inspired by origami, that can flatten itself to crawl into small spaces, scale steep inclines and withstand long falls.