Equipped with a grasping arm attachment, video camera and 100-meter tether, the Power Hawks of South River High School deployed a 30-pound waterproof robot into the South River Wednesday to collect ...

Inch by inch, Jacky Im’s robot climbs a 32-foot (10-meter) steel wall while he watches closely. Each of the 660-pound (300-kilogram) machine’s moves is captured by sensors and compared to a ...

The need for work in environments that are hard for people to access—such as underwater exploration, inspection and maintenance of underwater and surface structures, and nuclear power plant ...

Scientists used an autonomous underwater vehicle to explore shipwrecks in Lake Michigan for the first time. The technology captured highly detailed images of wrecks, including the Senator, which sank ...

This little bot is the Aquapod from the University of Minnesota’s Center for Distributed Robotics. Aquapod’s designed to tumble on land and at the bottoms of bodies of water like some species of ...