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…
While bees, birds, and ants swarm together to mate or protect themselves against predators, these worms are able to braid…
By Matthew Sparkes Robot squid that move to a rhythm can match the power efficiency of the real animals, a…
Anderson and her colleagues went a step further and programmed the Smellicopter to hunt for odors just like an actual…
I decided to record consistent body fat measurements for myself and a friend using the Halo, a Fitbit bathroom scale…
MIT researchers have automated and optimized robot design with a system called RoboGrammar. The system creates arthropod-inspired robots for traversing…
Computer graphic of a microvehicle with iron wheels (gold) and a polymer chassis (red). The vehicle measures just 0.25 millimetres…
New research that employs curved origami structures has dramatic implications in the development of robotics going forward, providing tunable flexibility—the…
Army and MIT’s way of linking metamaterials makes building a supermileage vehicles, like this one from collaborators Toyota Automotive Society,…
An example grasp using a pair of designed morphing fingertips. Credit: Kan et al. To perform tasks that involve moving…
Glove integrated with SLIMS sensor. Credit: Hedan Bai It’s not a stretch to say that stretchable sensors could change the…