With $4.5 million in fresh funding, Seattle-area startup Potato is sprouting big plans to disrupt scientific research with a fully automated experimental process. The 2-year-old company has released a ...

Researchers have developed a digital laboratory (dLab) system that fully automates the material synthesis and structural, physical property evaluation of thin-film samples. With dLab, the team can ...

Opentrons, a leader in lab automation, announces the launch of its Opentrons Flex robot, a new generation of affordable and easy-to-program liquid-handling lab robots designed to level the playing ...

What would happen if you took a mushroom and gave it a robot body? That must have been one of the questions scientists at Cornell University woke up hoping to answer this past year when they decided ...

September 15, 2025 — Virginia Tech researchers received a grant worth more than $500,000 from the National Science Foundation to expand robot theater, an after-school program that helps children ...

To explore volcanic tunnels on the Moon or Mars, send a team of specialized robots. Researchers have demonstrated this approach in tests on Lanzarote, an island in Spain, with one rover helping ...

This article was commissioned in conjunction with the Professors’ Programme, part of Prototypes for Humanity, a global initiative that showcases and accelerates academic innovation to solve social and ...