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,…
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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…
MIT researchers have built a battery-free pinpointing system dubbed Underwater Backscatter Localization (UBL). This photo shows the battery-free sensor encapsulated in a polymer before it…
Raptor-inspired drone with morphing wing and tail. Credit: 2020 EPFL/Alain Herzog EPFL engineers have developed a drone with a feathered wing and tail that give…
A new book co-authored by MIT engineers Julie Shah and Laura Major SM ’05 explores a future populated with robot helpers. Credit: Jose-Luis Olivares, MIT…
New research by MIT economist Daron Acemoglu shows that since 1987, automation has taken away jobs from lower-skill workers without being replaced by an equivalent…
Researchers from Cornell and the University of Pennsylvania built microsopic robots that consist of a simple circuit made from silicon photovoltaics – essentially the torso…
Researchers from MIT and Brigham and Women’s Hospital hope to reduce the risk to healthcare workers posed by Covid-19 by using robots to remotely measure…
Like biological fat reserves store energy in animals, a new rechargeable zinc battery integrates into the structure of a robot to provide much more energy,…
Kimera builds a dense 3D semantic mesh of an environment and can track humans in the environment. The figure shows a multi-frame action sequence of…
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…
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…