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…
Curved origami provides new range of stiffness-to-flexibility in robots
New research that employs curved origami structures has dramatic implications in the development of robotics going forward, providing tunable flexibility—the…
Researchers explore materials for transforming robots made of robots
Army and MIT’s way of linking metamaterials makes building a supermileage vehicles, like this one from collaborators Toyota Automotive Society,…
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…
Stretchable ‘skin’ sensor gives robots human sensation
Glove integrated with SLIMS sensor. Credit: Hedan Bai It’s not a stretch to say that stretchable sensors could change the…