A robot can now travel through the human body to cure diseases. Scientists have created a Transformers-style robot inspired by the Japanese paper-folding art of origami. The shape-shifting device is ...

Ever wanted to own a Transformer? Thanks to a Japanese company, that dream is not far away. Called 'J-deite quarter', a project to create a working quarter-scale machine that can change from a car ...

An AI-driven robot successfully removed gallbladders from pig cadavers on its own. Here’s how they did it. (And surgeons shouldn’t put away their scalpels just yet.) ...

Scientists at Cornell University and University of Pennsylvania have created mobile robots that can autonomously change their shape in order to complete various tasks. The robots are made of 3-inch ...

Only in Japan - the land of Astro Boy and Asimo - a Japanese engineer has developed a fully functioning real transformer robot. Conceived and built by engineer and confessed robot fanatic Kenji Ishida ...

Whether you know anything about robots or don't, we’re pretty sure you’ve watched at least one of the Transformers movies. If not, we’ll only tell you this: a car that transforms into a robot and ...

A team of roboticists have taken another step toward the inevitable future where real-life Transformers move among us. New research on modular, autonomous robots was published Wednesday that shows how ...

Japanese electronics giant Sharp just launched RoBoHon, a combined robot and smart phone. The telecommunication gadget comes with a whopping price tag of 198,000 Yen ($1800). Sharp expects to sell ...

Engineers and robotics scientists in Japan are racing to build a full-sized Japanese Transformer robot that is able to walk upright, but also transform into a working car by 2020. J-deite Quarter: A ...

Transformers don’t care about people, period. That's what I learned growing up in the 1980s, religiously watching a race of robot Titans from outer space wage a secret war on Earth. Transformers ...