Gregg Landry, an engineer from the Boston firm of iRobot, places a robot inside the shaft of the Great Pyramid in Cairo, Egypt, on Friday. CAIRO, Egypt -- A robot the size and shape of a child's toy ...

Like new and protective parents, engineers watched as the TETWalker robot successfully traveled across the floor at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. Robots of this type will ...

Researchers explore a tunnel in Teotihuacan last accessed 1,800 years ago. April 28, 2013— -- Mexican archeologists discovered three previously unknown chambers under a pyramid in Teotihuacan, an ...

CAIRO, Egypt - A robot the size and shape of a child's toy train is exploring one of the enduring questions of Egypt's Great Pyramid: What lies at the end of a shaft first discovered by explorers in ...

It's bigger than a breadbox now, but NASA would like to turn its TETwalker shape-shifting robot into a swarm of nanobots. Hordes of these nanobots will form "autonomous nanotechnology swarms" (ANTS).

A project led by engineers from the University of Leeds has uncovered a hidden chamber deep inside Egypt’s Great Pyramid of Giza, offering rare insight into the pyramid’s construction and purpose. The ...

CAIRO, Egypt (AP) -- A robot the size and shape of a child's toy train is exploring one of the enduring questions of Egypt's Great Pyramid: What lies at the end of a shaft first discovered by ...

CAIRO, Egypt -- A robot the size and shape of a child's toy train is exploring one of the enduring questions of Egypt's Great Pyramid: What lies at the end of a shaft first discovered by explorers in ...

For a robot, climbing a 7 1/2 -foot pyramid can be a daunting task -- and that's the point. In this year's FIRST robotics challenge, Ultimate Ascent, robots have the opportunity to score up to 30 ...