In some cases, robot designers can add more batteries. But more batteries mean more weight, which increases the energy ...

With electric vehicles, the challenge for battery makers is straightforward: make batteries that can hold more energy, so the ...

Modern robots can move with incredible agility, mimicking animal locomotion and executing complex tasks with mechanical ...

Safer alternative to flammable liquid electrolytes. Most lithium-ion batteries rely on flammable liquid electrolytes.

Swiss scientists have developed an ultra-thin lens that turns infrared light into visible light using lithium niobate and ...

Earlier this year, a robot completed a half-marathon in Beijing in just under 2 hours and 40 minutes. That's slower than the ...

In nature, animals don’t recharge, they eat. Food is converted into energy through digestion, circulation and respiration. Fat stores that energy, blood moves it and muscles use it. Future robots ...

Electric vehicles leave behind mountains of dead lithium-ion batteries. A new “injection” brings them back to life ...

A team of researchers in China has found a way to bring dead lithium-ion batteries back to life, potentially reducing both ...

Professors Jeffrey Richards and Jeffrey Lopez embrace concurrent materials design to improve sustainability in manufacturing and battery design.

MIT’s sodium-air fuel cell offers 3x energy density and carbon-capturing byproducts—bringing electric flight closer to reality.

Duke University researchers reveal boron controls pH in lithium-rich brines, offering insights to improve lithium extraction.