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…
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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…
RoboSimian and Surrogate are robots that were designed and built at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California. Credit: JPL-Caltech JPL is the lead NASA…
A SoftBank Robotics Pepper robot was used in the two robot conditions. Pepper, 1.21-meter-tall with 25 degrees of freedom, is a medium-sized humanoid robot designed…
Top view of a biobot, consisting of a muscle cell-laden hydrogel and a spring-like skeleton. Credit: IBEC Robotics field aims at mimicking what natural biological…
Tactile electronics developed at MIT use a mix of more typical textile fibers alongside a small amount of custom-made functional fibers that sense pressure from…
A robotic arm setup is equipped with a sensorized soft brush and aided by a camera to study the complex nature of manipulating and brushing…
MIT researchers developed a picking robot that combines vision with radio frequency (RF) sensing to find and grasps objects, even if they’re hidden from view.…
When sensors, communication, memory and computation are removed from a group of simple robots, certain sets of complex tasks can still be accomplished by leveraging…
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…
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…