Researchers from the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) have developed a new and improved snake-inspired soft robot that is faster and more precise than …read more Source:: Science
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Dynamic hydrogel used to make ‘soft robot’ components and LEGO-like building blocks
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•A new type of hydrogel material could soon make assembling complex microfluidic or soft robotic devices as simple as putting together a LEGO set. …read more Source:: Science
Novel flying robot mimics rapid insect flight
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•A novel insect-inspired flying robot, developed by TU Delft researchers from the Micro Air Vehicle Laboratory (MAVLab), is presented in Science. Experiments with this first autonomous, free-flying and agile flapping-wing …read more Source:: Science
Sorting molecules with DNA robots
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•Scientists have programmed a ‘robot’ made of DNA to pick up and sort molecules into predetermined locations. …read more Source:: Science
New robot has a human touch
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•Most robots achieve grasping and tactile sensing through motorized means, which can be excessively bulky and rigid. Scientists have now devised a way for a soft robot to feel its …read more Source:: Science
Wall-jumping robot is most vertically agile ever built
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•Roboticists have designed a small robot that can leap into the air and then spring off a wall, or perform multiple vertical jumps in a row, resulting in the highest …read more Source:: Science
Now you’re talking: human-like robot may one day care for dementia patients
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•SINGAPORE (Reuters) – With her brown hair, soft skin and expressive face, Nadine is a new brand of human-like robot that could one day, scientists hope, be used as a …read more Source:: UKScienceNews
Snug as a bug: the hated cockroach inspires a helpful robot
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•WASHINGTON (Reuters) – People use a lot of words to describe the reviled cockroach: disgusting, ugly, sneaky and repulsive, to name a few. But it may be time to add …read more Source:: UKScienceNews
HyQ2Max: the robot you can’t keep down
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•Robots that can venture into disaster zones in place of humans need to be tough enough to cope in hazardous environments. So far, the only viable robots are wheeled or …read more Source:: UKScienceNews
Getting HyQ the robot ‘disaster ready’
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•Robotics engineers are developing algorithms to make HyQ, a quadruped robot, into a useful tool in disaster missions. …read more Source:: UKScienceNews