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Towards edible robots and robotic food

Edible robots and robotic food, systems that perceive, process, and act upon stimulation, offer new opportunities in healthcare, environmental management, and promoting healthier eating. They could enable precise drug delivery, in vivo health monitoring, autonomously targeted nutrition in emergencies, waste reduction in farming, wild animal vaccination, and novel gastronomical experiences.

June 21, 2024 Read more

Self-assembling and disassembling swarm molecular robots via DNA molecular controller

Researchers have succeeded in developing a DNA-based molecular controller. Crucially, this controller enables the autonomous assembly and disassembly of molecular robots, as opposed to manually directing it.

June 14, 2024 Read more

Photonic chip integrates sensing and computing for ultrafast machine vision

Researchers have demonstrated a new intelligent photonic sensing-computing chip that can process, transmit and reconstruct images of a scene within nanoseconds.

June 13, 2024 Read more

Sweeping review reveals impact of integrating artificial intelligence technologies into photovoltaic systems

Artificial intelligence is poised to bring photovoltaic systems into a new era through revolutionary improvements in efficiency, reliability, and predictability of solar power generation.

June 12, 2024 Read more

Affordable and sensitive nanofiber piezoelectric sensors for human and robot motion monitoring

Researchers have developed a cost-effective, sensitive piezoelectric sensor using polyvinylidene fluoride nanofibers and dopamine, enhancing performance and stability for healthcare and robotics.

June 12, 2024 Read more

Tiny robot enables unlocks secrets of the gut microbiome, one sample at a time

A new multiple-sampling capsule robot can collect gut microbiome samples from various locations in the GI tract while minimizing contamination, enabling crucial longitudinal analysis.

June 12, 2024 Read more

New technique could help build quantum computers of the future

Researchers demonstrate a programmable approach to fabricating optical qubits at scale.

June 11, 2024 Read more

Fully 3D-printed shape memory mini-actuators can move small soft robots

Researchers have demonstrated miniature soft hydraulic actuators that can be used to control the deformation and motion of soft robots that are less than a millimeter thick.

June 11, 2024 Read more

With programmable pixels, novel sensor improves imaging of neural activity

New camera chip design allows for optimizing each pixel's timing to maximize signal to noise ratio when tracking real-time visual indicator of neural voltage.

June 7, 2024 Read more

Researcher developed liquid metal-based electronic logic device that mimics intelligent prey-capture mechanism of Venus flytrap

Exhibiting memory and counting properties, the device can intelligently respond to various stimulus sequences without the need for additional electronic components.

June 6, 2024 Read more

A new way of designing auxetic materials

Rresearchers have developed a better method for designing auxetic materials. The advance could help create a new generation of auxetic products from better sneaker insoles to blast-resilient buildings.

June 5, 2024 Read more

Introducing the hybrid-driven robotic origami gripper

Researchers have unveiled a novel hybrid-driven origami gripper, designed to tackle the challenge of grasping and manipulating objects with unprecedented versatility and precision.

June 2, 2024 Read more

Revolutionizing robotics: A breakthrough in soft actuator technology

A newly developed wrist-inspired soft actuator capable of bidirectional torsion promises to transform soft robotics.

June 2, 2024 Read more

Squishy magnetic microjoints bend the rules of microrobotics

Soft materials and magnetic fields enable a new generation of dexterous, fast-moving microrobotic joints for complex object manipulation tasks.

May 30, 2024 Read more

How AI helps programming a quantum computer

Generative models like Stable Diffusion and Dall.e transform machine learning by producing high-quality images from text. A new model now generates quantum circuits from text descriptions.

May 21, 2024 Read more

AI chips could get a sense of time

Timekeeping in the brain is done with neurons that relax at different rates after receiving a signal; now memristors - hardware analogues of neurons - can do that too.

May 20, 2024 Read more

Physicists propose path to faster, more flexible robots

Physicists revealed a microscopic phenomenon that could greatly improve the performance of soft devices, such as agile flexible robots or microscopic capsules for drug delivery.

May 18, 2024 Read more

Room-temperature method transforms liquid crystal 'fabric' into soft robotic actuators

New method turns liquid crystal elastomers into soft robotic actuators at room temperature, enabling easier customization and mass production.

May 17, 2024 Read more