Future robots need no motors
Engineers invent world's first nickel-hydroxide actuating material that can be triggered by light, electricity, and other stimuli.
Jun 4th, 2018
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Engineers invent world's first nickel-hydroxide actuating material that can be triggered by light, electricity, and other stimuli.
Jun 4th, 2018
Read moreThe novel skin-like electronic system is soft, thin, lightweight and can wirelessly activate soft robots through a simple lamination process.
Jun 1st, 2018
Read moreResearchers develop a fast, low-voltage actuator for soft and wearable robotics.
May 21st, 2018
Read moreAutonomous glider can fly like an albatross, cruise like a sailboat.
May 17th, 2018
Read moreNew robot concept uses responsive materials to swim through water.
May 15th, 2018
Read moreEngineers have for the first time cut the cord and added a brain, allowing their RoboFly to take its first independent flaps. This might be one small flap for a robot, but it's one giant leap for robot-kind.
May 15th, 2018
Read moreResearchers have demonstrated for the first time the feasibility of a robotic system that plays Tic Tac Toe with rehabilitation patients to improve real-life task performance.
May 4th, 2018
Read moreResearchers have secured funding to develop artificial intelligence systems to enable self-learning robots to be deployed in place of humans to hazardous nuclear sites.
May 4th, 2018
Read moreUsing sensors, actuators and artificial muscle, robots could be used in medicine, rescue and defense.
Apr 18th, 2018
Read moreTo overcome the material rigidity and actuation limitations in current robotic systems, a research project sought inspiration from invertebrates.
Apr 17th, 2018
Read moreA team of researchers has developed a robotic gripper that combines the adhesive properties of gecko toes and the adaptability of air-powered soft robots to grasp a much wider variety of objects than the state of the art.
Apr 9th, 2018
Read moreScientists report that by combining a robotic arm and mass spectrometry, they can analyze the surface of irregularly shaped 3-D objects, potentially opening up new branches of forensics and pharmaceutics.
Apr 5th, 2018
Read moreThe novel vacuum gripper enables robot arms to pick up objects and move them around freely in space.
Mar 23rd, 2018
Read moreScientists are developing robot and remote-sensing technology to provide safe ways to assess crime or disaster scenes and begin gathering forensic evidence.
Mar 15th, 2018
Read moreResearchers have developed an origami-inspired robotic arm that is foldable, self-assembling and also highly-rigid.
Mar 14th, 2018
Read moreA study has uncovered new ways of driving multi-legged robots by means of a two-level controller. The proposed controller uses a network of so-called non-linear oscillators that enables the generation of diverse gaits and postures, which are specified by only a few high-level parameters.
Mar 9th, 2018
Read moreMeet ROVER. If you?re lucky - and trigger its heat sensors - it'll roll up to you and sing a song.
Mar 7th, 2018
Read moreJumping robot spiders and swarms of robotic bees sounds like the stuff of science fiction, but researchers are already working on such projects and aiming to lead the world in micro robotics.
Mar 1st, 2018
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