Scientists at China's Beihang University developed a tiny morphable robot to explore the ocean's depths — and it's now taken a dive into the Mariana Trench. The team successfully demonstrated that its ...

Far below the reach of sunlight, a deep-sea robot descended to 1,300 m and sent back images of something that, on paper, should not be there at all. In a stretch of the Pacific that scientists thought ...

Soft robots that power themselves from their surroundings are moving from lab curiosity to strategic technology, promising machines that can swim the deepest oceans, survive the vacuum of space, and ...