A prototype of an intelligent underground robotic system for urban environments
Badger, a three-metre-long drilling robot consisting of a drilling head, two clamping modules and two propulsion and steering modules. Credit:…
Researchers Are Studying These Worm Blobs to Build Robots
While bees, birds, and ants swarm together to mate or protect themselves against predators, these worms are able to braid…
This Drone Sniffs Out Odors With a Real Moth Antenna
Anderson and her colleagues went a step further and programmed the Smellicopter to hunt for odors just like an actual…
Army strengthens future tech with muscle-bound robots
Credit: The Army Research Laboratory Robotic systems packed with muscle tissue can produce never-seen-before agility and versatility, Army researchers said.…
Aquatic robot inspired by sea creatures walks, rolls, transports cargo
Bending the hybrid hydrogel with light resulted in a walking robot. Credit: Li et al., Sci. Robot. 6, eabb9822 (2020)…
Designing soft and sensitive robotic fingers
Scientists at Ritsumeikan University, Japan, design a 3-D printable soft robotic finger containing a built-in sensor with adjustable stiffness Credit:…
Amazon Halo Review: The Fitness Gadget We Don’t Deserve or Need
I decided to record consistent body fat measurements for myself and a friend using the Halo, a Fitbit bathroom scale…
Copying beetle wings to design MAVs that can recover from midair collisions
KUBeetle-S robot with the foldable wings. Credit: H. Vu Phan A pair of researchers at Konkuk University has designed a…
An origami-inspired robotic fingertip with shape-morphing capabilities
An example grasp using a pair of designed morphing fingertips. Credit: Kan et al. To perform tasks that involve moving…
Magnetic FreeBOT balls make giant leap for robotics
A freeform MSRR system – FreeBOT. Credit: Guanqi Liang et al. A unique type of modular self-reconfiguring robotic system has…