Xenobots exhibit cooperative swarm activity, in this case working together to gather piles of tiny particles. Credit: Doug Blackiston, Tufts University Artificial living organisms can…
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This “airplane,” made of strands of DNA, is 1000 times smaller than the width of a human hair. Credit: Ohio State University New software will…
Examples of 3D point clouds synthesized by the progressive conditional generative adversarial network (PCGAN) for an assortment of object classes. PCGAN generates both geometry and…
Credit: Julius-Maximilians-University What might look like a dangling hamster ball is actually a robotic sphere to explore the depths of lunar caves. Designed by a…
A robotics platform designed by Toronto researchers to screen thousands of COVID-19 samples at once has the potential to revolutionize how labs track the spread…
Insects’ remarkable acrobatic traits help them navigate the aerial world, with all of its wind gusts, obstacles, and general uncertainty. Such traits are also hard…
Miniature robots created from bubbles can manipulate small pieces into interconnected structures. Credit: American Chemical Society Robots are widely used to build cars, paint airplanes…
Researchers developed a way to use overhead LED lighting and a smartphone to create 3D images of a small figurine. Credit: Emma Le Francois, University…
MIT researchers have developed an automated way to design customized hardware, or “brains,” that speeds up a robot’s operation. A new system devises hardware architectures…
This octopus has color-changing cells, called chromatophores, in its skin, a phenomenon that inspired Rutgers engineers. Credit: NOAA Okeanos Explorer Program, Galapagos Rift Expedition 2011…
The flower-like set of points represents all possible shapes that the smarticle swarm can take on. In line with rattling theory, the most common shapes…
New Army research reduces the unpredictability of current training reinforcement learning policies so that they are more practically applicable to physical systems, especially ground robots.…
CSIRO’s RV Investigator. Credit: CSIRO Australian research voyage to investigate how life in the Southern Ocean captures and stores carbon from the atmosphere. A fleet…
Shadow Dexterous Hand. Credit: Shadow Robot Company The Shadow Robot Dexterous Hand is comparable to a human hand, reproducing all of its degrees of freedom…
MIT researchers have automated and optimized robot design with a system called RoboGrammar. The system creates arthropod-inspired robots for traversing a variety of terrains. Pictured…
The reptile millirobot changes from caterpillar motion to concertina motion after reprogramming. Credit: City University of Hong Kong Millirobots that can adapt to unstructured environments,…
Researchers hacked a robotic vacuum cleaner to record speech and music remotely. A team of researchers demonstrated that popular robotic household vacuum cleaners can be…
The reptile millirobot changes from caterpillar motion to concertina motion after reprogramming. Credit: City University of Hong Kong An easy way to make millirobots by…
CASH that combines machine learning, robotics, and big data demonstrates the tremendous potential in materials science. It is only through coevolution with such technologies that…
These visualizations of the system’s output show broad patterns of instability, but localized patterns of stability. Credit: © 2020 Inoue et al. Researchers use dynamical…