MIT researchers have developed a system that improves the speed and agility of legged robots as they jump across gaps in the terrain. Credit: Photo…
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A 3D microflier sits next to a common ant to show scale. Credit: Northwestern University The size of a grain of sand, dispersed microfliers could…
Illustrations of the projects that were selected for Phase I of the 2021 NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC) program. Credit: NASA Dozens of concepts are…
Tesla aims to show off a prototype humanoid robot as soon as next year. Credit: Tesla Elon Musk announced a humanoid robot designed to help…
An Asian flat-tailed house gecko, Hemidactylus platyurus. Videos of these geckos, common in the forests of Singapore, showed that their tails allow them to recover…
Credit: Anna Nesterova University of Arizona aerospace and mining engineers are mapping out a plan for harvesting the moon’s resources using autonomous robot swarms and…
An artificial muscle made of a stretched shape memory polymer contracts upon heating, bending a mannequin’s arm. Credit: Adapted from ACS Central Science 2021, DOI:…
Credit: NASA In 2022, university students’ robotics designs may hop, slither, crawl, balloon, tumble, levitate, or leap to victory, displaying alternative rover motion techniques during…
An Asian flat-tailed house gecko, Hemidactylus platyurus. Videos of these geckos, common in the forests of Singapore, showed that their tails allow them to recover…
New research from the Georgia Institute of Technology finds that elephants dilate their nostrils in order to create more space in their trunks, allowing them…
An MIT-developed inflatable robotic hand gives amputees real-time tactile control. The smart hand is soft and elastic, weighs about half a pound, and costs a…
Aerospace engineers at MIT have devised an algorithm that helps drones find the fastest route around obstacles, without crashing. Credit: MIT News, with background figure…
Fish are thought to adjust their tail stiffness in order to swim efficiently over a wide range of speeds, but how and when they tune…
Most metallic glass alloys form a hard, smooth surface. This gives metallic glass gears a long lifetime without the need for liquid lubricants, making them…
This illustration shows the utopian farm robot scenario. Credit: Natalis Lorenz No longer science fiction, farm robots are already here — and they have created…
Scientists Find Way to Navigate a Heavy Uphill Climb With Tiny Motors That Behave Like Rock Climbers
Scientists Find Way to Navigate a Heavy Uphill Climb With Tiny Motors That Behave Like Rock Climbers
Heavy metallic microswimmers, made of rhodium (purple) and gold, swim around in a liquid solution. When confronting a sloped wall, each rod-like swimmer will reorient…
A drone flying through smoke to visualize the complex aerodynamic effects. Credit: Robotics and Perception Group, University of Zurich To be useful, drones need to…
Righthand Robotics combines machine vision with an intelligent gripper design to offer robots that are more adaptable. Credit: Courtesy of the researchers MIT alumnus-founded RightHand…
When these self-propelled particles come together, they can organize and move like schools of fish to perform robotic functions. Credit: Kyle Bishop Lab Columbia and…
Metallic microrobots (dark blue dots) colonize a jagged piece of microplastic under visible light, breaking down the plastic into smaller molecules. Credit: Adapted from ACS…