Robotics

Water-pumping robot worms its way over rugged coastal terrain

Biomimicry involves borrowing ideas from nature to solve engineering problems. This is what one of the research teams at New York University's Tandon School...

Impossibly tiny Swiss motor looks like anything but

If you've already designed a soft-bodied robot, it kind of defeats the purpose if you just go and stick a rigid motor inside of...

Next-gen hopping robot is the smart flea we didn’t know we needed

We’ve already seen robots that can swim like fish, stick to walls like geckos, and grab objects like elephants. Now, engineers at the University...

Robot skin harvests power as it walks

Researchers have developed a paper-thin foot membrane that lets crawling microrobots harvest electricity directly from the ground beneath them, ditching heavy onboard batteries by...

Video: Dexterous robot hand learns the delicate art of silk embroidery

Agilink, a spin-off of Chinese robotics giant AgiBot, asked Fu Xianghong, a master of traditional Suzhou embroidery, to train its OmniHand 3 Ultra. The...

MIT’s paper-thin robot swims using living cells and light

An MIT robot powered by a single layer of living muscle cells swam through a watery maze, following a light held in a researcher’s...
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