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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Here’s a little robot that knows how to dress for the occasion. Scientists at MIT have built a bot that can, with a little origami action, change its shape from a walking bot to a rolling or even a ...

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 ...

Researchers have created a new breed of origami robot that folds itself into shape from a flat sheet of material — and could open the way for a robot-building revolution similar to the current 3-D ...

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 ...