A helping hand for working robots
A reimagined robot hand combines strength with flexibility and resilience, sidestepping problems with existing designs.
Mar 8th, 2022
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A reimagined robot hand combines strength with flexibility and resilience, sidestepping problems with existing designs.
Mar 8th, 2022
Read moreResearchers have designed a malleable robotic arm that can be guided into shape by a person using augmented reality (AR) goggles.
Mar 4th, 2022
Read moreEngineers have created tiny bug-inspired robots that can carry out tasks in hard-to-reach spaces and inhospitable environments.
Mar 4th, 2022
Read moreResearchers have created a robotic hand that can fully rotate various objects even as its grippers occasionally break contact with the object.
Mar 3rd, 2022
Read moreAutoPhoto is a robotic system that can automatically roam an interior space and capture aesthetically pleasing photographs.
Mar 3rd, 2022
Read moreStriving to improve touch sensing in robotics, scientists developed a thumb-shaped sensor with a camera hidden inside and trained a deep neural network to infer its haptic contact information.
Feb 24th, 2022
Read moreResearchers have developed self-healing, biodegradable, 3D-printed materials that could be used in the development of realistic artificial hands and other soft robotics applications.
Feb 19th, 2022
Read moreResearchers have made an android child named Nikola that successfully conveys six basic emotions - happiness, sadness, fear, anger, surprise, and disgust - which were generated by moving 'muscles' in Nikola's face. This is the first time that the quality of android-expressed emotion has been tested and verified for these six emotions.
Feb 16th, 2022
Read moreImagine a small autonomous vehicle that could drive over land, stop, and flatten itself into a quadcopter. The rotors start spinning, and the vehicle flies away.
Feb 9th, 2022
Read moreResearchers design a transducer powered by electrochemical reactions for operating fluid pumps without cumbersome parts in soft robots.
Feb 8th, 2022
Read moreA new drive system for flapping wing autonomous robots has been developed, using a new method of electromechanical zipping that does away with the need for conventional motors and gears.
Feb 2nd, 2022
Read moreEngineers have demonstrated a new type of flexible, robotic grippers that are able to lift delicate egg yolks without breaking them, and that are precise enough to lift a human hair. The work has applications for both soft robotics and biomedical technologies.
Jan 26th, 2022
Read moreTo navigate difficult terrain, humans and animals quite automatically combine the visual perception of their environment with the proprioception of their legs and hands. This allows them to easily handle slippery or soft ground and move around with confidence, even when visibility is low.
Jan 24th, 2022
Read moreResearchers have developed an algorithm to help robots avoid colliding with humans and other moving obstacles in their path.
Jan 10th, 2022
Read moreInspired by the natural dexterity of the human hand, a team of engineers has created a reconfigurable hybrid robotics system that is able to grip a variety of objects: from the small, soft and delicate to the large, heavy and bulky.
Dec 28th, 2021
Read moreFlexible tentaclelike manipulators driven by air pressure can be designed to grasp, manipulate soft objects.
Dec 21st, 2021
Read moreA new fabrication technique produces low-voltage, power-dense artificial muscles that improve the performance of flying microrobots.
Dec 17th, 2021
Read moreTwo research groups have developed a computer program that can control a robot using electrical signals emitted by a patient's brain. No voice control or touch function is needed; patients can move the robot simply with their thoughts.
Dec 17th, 2021
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