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…
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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…
An underwater rover called BRUIE is being tested in Antarctica to look for life under the ice. Developed by engineers at NASA-JPL, the robotic submersible…
Joao Ramos (center), co-inventor of HERMES (left), and Little HERMES (right). Credit: Tony Pulsone New control system may enable humanoid robots to do heavy lifting…
Quadrupole modules can be assembled into two-dimensional shapes, including pixel art emojis like these. Credit: ETH Zurich / Hongri Gu ETH scientists have developed cube-shaped…
The new “growing robot” can be programmed to grow, or extend, in different directions, based on the sequence of chain units that are locked and…
The scanning electron microscope image shows the bird-like construct with arrangements of nanoscale magnets. The magnets can be magnetised in different orientations parallel to the…
For last-mile delivery, robots of the future may use a new MIT algorithm to find the front door, using clues in their environment. Navigation method…
A stretchable light-emitting device becomes an epidermal stopwatch. Credit: Adapted from ACS Materials Letters 2019, DOI: 10.1021/acsmaterialslett.9b00376. Imagine a runner who doesn’t need to carry…
Mechanical science and engineering professor João Ramos developed a human-operated robot, named Little Hermes, which relies on human reflexes to remain upright during locomotion. Credit:…
Tiny, self-propelled robots could someday be used to clean up radioactive waste. Credit: American Chemical Society According to some experts, nuclear power holds great promise…
One modular robotic cube snaps into place with the rest of the M-blocks. Credit: Jason Dorfman/MIT CSAIL Developed at MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence…
Jumping spiders have evolved an efficient depth perception system, allowing them to accurately pounce on unsuspecting targets from several body lengths away. Credit: Shamble, Tsevi…
MIT engineers have developed a system for autonomous vehicles that senses tiny changes in shadows on the ground to determine if there’s a moving object…
The U.S. Army’s investment for the 10 year, Army-led foundational research program has resulted in advanced science in four critical areas of ground combat robotics…