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DyRET, the Dynamic Robot for Embodied Testing, or “the animal” in the Norwegian of its creator, Tønnes Nygaard, was designed to explore the idea of a shape-shifting robot.

Back in 1991, ground breaking visual effects helped bring the shape-shifting liquid metal T-1000 robot to life in James Cameron’s Terminator 2, but 32 years later, shape-shifting robots now ...

In all, the robot can morph from about 34 millimeters (1.3 inches) wide in its square shape to about 21 millimeters (0.8 inches) wide in its elongated form. Unlike Jayaram’s earlier mechanized ...

Researchers have created a tiny, shape-shifting robot that swims, crawls, and glides freely in the deep sea. Developed by a team at the Beihang University in China, the robot operated at a depth ...

The robot chooses its shape based on a software library of 57 possible configurations set to match specific tasks. It can transform itself into something resembling a snake, for example, or sprout ...

A slime robot requires large chunks of it to be moved at a time to achieve a functional and effective shape change; manipulating single particles wouldn’t result in the substantial change required.

If a robot is going to excel at traversing multiple types of terrain, it shouldn't have an unadaptable "Jack of all trades, master of none" body shape. That's where the GOAT comes in, as it ...

The Shape-Shifting Robot That Evolves by Falling Down Evolutionary robotics is a potentially powerful way to get machines to master novel terrain on their own, no hand-holding required.

A spider-inspired robot called mCLARI weighs less than a gram and could one day be deployed to aid first responders following a natural disaster or help out in surgery.

Scientists say the Lego-shaped robot can “melt” from solid to liquid and reform itself to squeeze in and out of tight spaces, perform tasks like soldering a circuit board and even escape cages.

Journal Reference: Heiko Kabutz, Kaushik Jayaram. Design of CLARI: A Miniature Modular Origami Passive Shape‐Morphing Robot. Advanced Intelligent Systems, 2023; DOI: 10.1002/aisy.202300181 ...