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Researchers use artificial intelligence to improve quality of images recorded by a relatively new biomedical imaging method. This paves the way towards more accurate diagnosis and cost-effective devices.
Sep 30th, 2019
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Researchers have developed soft robotic devices driven by neuromuscular tissue that triggers when stimulated by light - bringing mechanical engineering one step closer to developing autonomous biobots.
Sep 23rd, 2019
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Building conventional robots typically requires carefully combining components like motors, batteries, actuators, body segments, legs and wheels. Now, researchers have taken a new approach, building a robot entirely from smaller robots known as 'smarticles' to unlock the principles of a potentially new locomotion technique.
Sep 19th, 2019
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By taking a deep dive into the complex interaction between structure and fluid dynamics, mechanical engineering professors hope to advance bio-inspired technology.
Sep 18th, 2019
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A bio-inspired bot uses water from the environment to create a propelling gas and launch itself from the water's surface.
Sep 12th, 2019
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A new synthetic material that creates a linked sensory network similar to a biological nervous system could enable soft robots to sense how they interact with their environment and adjust their actions accordingly.
Sep 11th, 2019
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Bomechanics researchers boiled down the sprints of cockroaches to handy principles and equations they then used to make a test robot amble about better.
Aug 23rd, 2019
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Neuroscientists show how evolution and animal brains can be a rich source of inspiration for machine learning, especially to help AI tackle some enormously difficult problems, like doing the dishes.
Aug 22nd, 2019
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The increasingly digital nature of our world introduces a seemingly endless list of considerations when it comes to ensuring automated systems can successfully meet human needs.
Aug 17th, 2019
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Scientists have developed a tiny pump that could play a big role in the development of autonomous soft robots, lightweight exoskeletons and smart clothing. Flexible, silent and weighing only one gram, it is poised to replace the rigid, noisy and bulky pumps currently used.
Aug 14th, 2019
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Thanks to new technology that enables them to create simple tools, robots may be on the verge of their own version of the Stone Age.
Aug 13th, 2019
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New system could free bench chemists from time-consuming tasks, may help inspire new molecules.
Aug 9th, 2019
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Scientists will develop technologies within the new SHERO project that allow soft robots to self-heal damage. Because this repair process should not involve humans, the researchers are looking into self-healing materials to build the soft robots with.
Aug 8th, 2019
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Birds can perch on a wide variety of surfaces, thick or thin, rough or slick. But can they find stable footing if a branch is covered in Teflon? In the interest of making better robots, researchers found out.
Aug 6th, 2019
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If the sight of a skittering bug makes you squirm, you may want to look away - a new insect-sized robot can scurry across the floor at nearly the speed of a darting cockroach.
Jul 31st, 2019
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Researchers have developed a novel structural color soft robot with both color-changing and locomotion capabilities.
Jul 31st, 2019
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Researchers used liquid crystal elastomer technology to demonstrate a bio-inspired microrobot capable of mimicking the adhesive locomotion of snails and slugs in natural scale. The 10-millimeter long soft robot harvests energy from a laser beam and can crawl on horizontal surfaces, climb vertical walls and an upside-down glass ceiling.
Jul 31st, 2019
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Unique sensor system responds 1,000 times faster than the human sense of touch, the fastest ever achieved for an e-skin.
Jul 18th, 2019
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