Similarity of legs, wheels, tracks suggests target for energy-efficient robots
The Legged Locomotion and Movement Adaptation, or LLAMA, is an autonomous quadruped mobility research platform system patterned after a working…
Peanut the Waiter Robot Is Proof That Your Job Is Safe
Robots also lack the kind of intelligence, manual dexterity, and people skills that any good cook, host, or server relies…
ANYbotics reveals full-scale robotic inspection solution
Credit: ANYbotics The Swiss robotics company ANYbotics has announced the launch of a new end-to-end robotic inspection system for the…
Engineers utilize ‘swarmalation’ to design active materials for self-regulating soft robots
Self-oscillations of a passive sheet. Center of the sheet oscillates back and forth across the catalytic patch (red). Credit: Raj…
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…
Watch a robot squid propel itself through water with rhythm
By Matthew Sparkes Robot squid that move to a rhythm can match the power efficiency of the real animals, a…
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…
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…
New system optimizes the shape of robots for traversing various terrain types
MIT researchers have automated and optimized robot design with a system called RoboGrammar. The system creates arthropod-inspired robots for traversing…
Miniscule robots of metal and plastic may revolutionize the field of medicine
Computer graphic of a microvehicle with iron wheels (gold) and a polymer chassis (red). The vehicle measures just 0.25 millimetres…