A robot that looks like a piece of rotini pasta can propel itself through a maze without humans helping it. Researchers from North Carolina State University and the University of Pennsylvania ...

More by Saugat Bolakhe This article was originally published with the title “Lego Robot with an Organic 'Brain' Learns to Navigate a Maze” in SA Mind Vol. 33 No. 3 (May 2022), p. 10 ...

A soft robot with no motors, batteries or computers can roll over a range of surfaces and escape simple mazes by harvesting heat energy and turning it into motion. Jie Yin at North Carolina State ...