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‘Brainless’ robot can navigate complex obstacles
By Matt Shipman Researchers who created a soft robot that could navigate simple mazes without human or computer direction have now built on that work, creating a “brainless” soft robot […]
Battery-free origami microfliers from UW researchers offer a new bio-inspired future of flying machines
Researchers at the University of Washington developed small robotic devices that can change how they move through the air by “snapping” into a folded position during their descent. Shown here […]
High-tech microscope with ML software for detecting malaria in returning travellers
By Deborah Pirchner Malaria is an infectious disease claiming more than half a million lives each year. Because traditional diagnosis takes expertise and the workload is high, an international team […]
Fiber-infused ink enables 3D-printed heart muscle to beat
This illustration shows a 3D printed heart ventricle engineered with fiber-infused ink. Credit: Harvard SEAS By Kat J. McAlpine / SEAS Communications Over the last decade, advances in 3D printing […]
MIT engineers use kirigami to make ultrastrong, lightweight structures
MIT researchers used kirigami, the art of Japanese paper cutting and folding, to develop ultrastrong, lightweight materials that have tunable mechanical properties, like stiffness and flexibility. These materials could be […]
New dual-arm robot achieves bimanual tasks by learning from simulation
Dual arm robot holding crisp. Image: Yijiong Lin The new Bi-Touch system, designed by scientists at the University of Bristol and based at the Bristol Robotics Laboratory, allows robots to […]
AI helps robots manipulate objects with their whole bodies
MIT researchers developed an AI technique that enables a robot to develop complex plans for manipulating an object using its entire hand, not just the fingertips. This model can generate […]
3D display could soon bring touch to the digital world
Copyright: Brian Johnson Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems and the University of Colorado Boulder have developed a soft shape display, a robot that can rapidly and […]
Can charismatic robots help teams be more creative?
Image/Shutterstock.com By Angharad Brewer Gillham, Frontiers science writer Increasingly, social robots are being used for support in educational contexts. But does the sound of a social robot affect how well […]
Enabling autonomous exploration
CMU’s Autonomous Exploration Research Team has developed a suite of robotic systems and planners enabling robots to explore more quickly, probe the darkest corners of unknown environments, and create more […]