Bricklayers have a tough job. It requires skill and experience. It is hard on the back and knees. Hands too. You have to be outside in all kinds of weather. It’s perhaps not surprising that there aren ...

Pliable bricks that stick together like Lego could be the ultimate play set for advanced robotics. George Whitesides and his colleagues at Harvard University have developed a range of soft robots, ...

Engineers at Northwestern University have created a new kind of robot that can adapt, recover from damage, and keep moving even after being broken apart. The machines, called “legged metamachines,” ...

Earlier this month, startup Embodied announced that it is going out of business and taking its Moxie robot with it. The $800 robots, aimed at providing emotional support for kids ages 5 to 10, would ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Few categories are as ripe for automation-fueled disruption as construction. The industry is valued at around $2 trillion a year, ...

Researchers at the KTH Royal Institute of Technology have created a miniature robotic muscle substance that breaks through brick walls. With electronic impulses of less than one volt, the material—a ...

Brick & Mortar Ventures founding partner Darren Bechtel views the construction world through the lens of both a builder — he’s a scion of a major construction company — and an early backer of proptech ...