Typically, robots are built to perform a single task. To make them more adaptable, researchers from Yale University have developed a kind of “robotic skin” that transforms ordinary objects ...

Researchers at Yale University have developed a new sensor-packed robot skin that can be wrapped around inanimate objects, such as toys, to transform them into functioning robots. Here's why that ...

He used animation and other media to create worlds inhabited by anthropomorphic machines and industrious creatures. One ...

Her signature style for playfully animating inanimate objects can be traced back to her 1980s childhood on a farm in the Central Valley of California.