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The Kilobot is a low-cost robot designed to make testing collective algorithms on hundreds or thousands of robots accessible to robotics researchers. This video describes the features of the Kilobot robot and how they can be controlled in a group.

This video demonstrates some of the capabilities of the Kilobot such as: communication, distance sensing, locomotion, and on-board computation. All demonstrations are fully autonomous, without any human controlling the robots.

This video shows a Kilobot collective of up to 29 robot demonstrating some popular collective behaviors such as follow-the-leader and foraging.

Recent technological advances have made it possible to create hundreds of thousands of oligonucleotides on a single DNA microchip, resulting in a low-cost, reliable gene-synthesis technology.

A single, thin sheet composed of interconnected triangular sections transforms itself into a boat and then into an airplane. The shapes are produced by triggering proper actuator groups in sequence.

Wyss researchers have engineered photosynthetic bacteria to produce simple sugars and lactic acid, an innovation that could lead to new, environmentally friendly methods for producing commodity chemicals in bulk.

Polymer microbristles embedded in an 'artificial muscle' made of hydrogel form strikingly different patterns with changes in humidity.