Aerial robot that can morph in flight | Robotics
Marking a world first, researchers from the Étienne Jules Marey Institute of Movement Sciences (CNRS / Aix-Marseille Université) have drawn…
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Cell-like nanorobots clear bacteria and toxins from blood | Robotics
Engineers at the University of California San Diego have developed tiny ultrasound-powered robots that can swim through blood, removing harmful…
An artificial nerve system gives prosthetic devices and robots a sense of touch | Robotics
Stanford and Seoul National University researchers have developed an artificial sensory nerve system that can activate the twitch reflex in a…
Cometh the cyborg: Improved integration of living muscles into robots | Robotics
The new field of biohybrid robotics involves the use of living tissue within robots, rather than just metal and plastic. Muscle is one potential key…
Infrastructure Robots Rise to Meet Urgent Needs | Robotics
One example of an infrastructure robot in action: CISBOT in a pipe. Source: ULC Robotics
If you’ve driven on American roads this…
Grown-ups with supportive robots | Robotics
Credit: Jorge Manuel Miranda Dias
Robots will be a necessity with the…
Use artificial intelligence to identify, count, describe wild animals | Robotics
A new paper in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) reports how a cutting-edge artificial intelligence technique called deep…
How smart technology gadgets can avoid speed limits | Robotics
Speed limits apply not only to traffic. There are limitations on the control of light as well, in optical switches for internet traffic, for example.…
Magnetic 3D-printed structures crawl, roll, and jump | Robotics
MIT engineers have created soft, 3-D-printed structures whose movements can be controlled with a wave of a magnet, much like marionettes without the…
Future robots need no motors | Robotics
To develop micro- and biomimetic-robots, artificial muscles and medical devices, actuating materials that can reversibly change their volume under…