Researchers at the University of Washington have developed a tiny camera that can ride aboard an insect. Here a Pinacate beetle explores the UW campus…
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As a control algorithm moves robots through a space, each state the robots can be in is represented by a spot on the 3D graph.…
The movement of sand grains in the scoop on the end of NASA InSight’s robotic arm suggests that the spacecraft’s self-hammering “mole,” which is in…
Thinking about the future of robots and autonomy is exciting; driverless cars, lights-out factories, urban air mobility, robotic surgeons available anywhere in the world. We’ve…
Approximately one third of the 3.8 million female breast cancer survivors in the US today have undergone mastectomy, and as many as three quarters of…
An artist’s rendering of jellyfish augmented with the implant designed by Xu and Dabiri. Credit: Rebecca Konte/Caltech Researchers at Caltech and Stanford use microelectronics to…
Built with multifunctional appendages able to spin wheels that can also be “wiggled” and lifted, the Mini Rover was modeled on a novel NASA rover…
Inspired by the biomechanics of cheetahs, researchers have developed a new type of soft robot that is capable of moving more quickly on solid surfaces…
MIT economist Daron Acemoglu’s new research puts a number on the job costs of automation. In many parts of the U.S., robots have been replacing…
Overhead view of the isoperimetric robot grasping and handling a basketball. Credit: Farrin Abbott/Stanford News Service A new type of robot combines traditional and soft…
A Science Robotics editorial describes how robots can help combat COVID-19. Can robots be effective tools in combating the COVID-19 pandemic? A group of leaders…
The self-balancing robot used to demonstrate how ‘Perceptual Control Theory’ can help robots to walk in a more human-like way. Credit: University of Manchester A…
CoSTAR member and Caltech graduate student Amanda Bouman operates a robot called Spot, which was provided by Boston Dynamics with autonomy “smarts” provided by JPL.…
This tiny wing could someday be used in robots or devices to harvest solar energy. Credit: American Chemical Society In ancient Greek mythology, Icarus’ wax…
Johns Hopkins University’s Terradynamics Lab created this snake robot to mimic its animal counterpart. Credit: JHU/Will Kirk Snakes live in diverse environments ranging from unbearably…
Cells being manipulated and assembled. Credit: Douglas Blackiston, Tufts University Tiny ‘xenobots’ assembled from cells promise advances from drug delivery to toxic waste clean-up. A…
The High Bay 1 clean room within the Spacecraft Assembly Facility at JPL is seen in this image taken on November 12, 2019. The Mars…
[embedded content] This year has had its share of science and technology advances from Army researchers. The U.S. Army CCDC Army Research Laboratory, the Army’s…
An untethered model that is fully wireless and autonomous, weighing less than 1 gram and carrying its battery and all electronic components on its back.…
Light makes the conditioned liquid crystal move. Credit: Aalto University, Tampere University, Cell Press Researchers trained material the same way as Pavlov trained dogs. Conditioning…