Robots may need lizard-like tails for 'off-road' travel
Robots may one day tackle obstacles and traverse uneven terrains thanks to collaborative research analysing the motion of lizards.
Sep 25, 2018
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Robotics
Journal of the Royal Society Interface
Journal of the Royal Society Interface welcomes articles of high quality research at the interface of the physical and life sciences. It provides a high-quality forum to publish rapidly and interact across this boundary in two main ways: J. R. Soc. Interface publishes research applying chemistry, engineering, materials science, mathematics and physics to the biological and medical sciences; it also highlights discoveries in the life sciences of relevance to the physical sciences. Both sides of the interface are considered equally and it is one of the only journals to cover this exciting new territory. J. R. Soc. Interface welcomes contributions on a diverse range of topics, including but not limited to; biocomplexity, bioengineering, bioinformatics, biomaterials, biomechanics, bionanoscience, biophysics, chemical biology, computer science (as applied to the life sciences), medical physics, synthetic biology, systems biology, theoretical biology and tissue engineering.
- Publisher
- The Royal Society
- Country
- United Kingdom
- History
- 2004-present
- Website
- http://rsif.royalsocietypublishing.org
- Impact factor
- 4.260 (2010)
Robotics
Study suggests smaller cities likely to see more job loss due to automation
A small team of researchers from MIT and Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management has found evidence that suggests automation will cause more job loss in smaller cities than large cities. In their paper published ...
Jun 11, 2018 report
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Robotics
Teaching robots to climb walls by mimicking the cockroach headbutt
A team of researchers from the University of California, Harvard University and The Pennsylvania State University has found a simple approach to getting a robot to change planes when running into a wall—follow the example ...
Feb 14, 2018 report
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Engineering
Gripping geckos' aerial escapes test their limits
Geckos climb vertically up trees, walls and even windows, thanks to pads on the digits of their feet that employ a huge number of tiny bristles and hooks.
Jul 19, 2017
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Engineering
Soft sensors for smart textiles
Researchers from Empa in St. Gallen have succeeded in producing optic fibers for sensors that are ideal for textiles. This would enable hospitals to monitor whether a patient is developing pressure sores, for instance.
Mar 14, 2017
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Robotics
Robot mimics vertebrate motion
Based on X-ray videos, EPFL scientists have invented a new robot that mimics the way salamanders walk and swim with unprecedented detail: a tool for understanding the evolution of vertebrate locomotion.
Jun 29, 2016
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Energy & Green Tech
Retrofitting a few city buildings would have big impact on overall carbon emissions
Many programs encourage owners of homes and other buildings to improve their energy efficiency, sometimes offering substantial subsidies or tax incentives for doing so. Now, planners may have a way to determine where such ...
Apr 20, 2016
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Robotics
Researchers take next step with cyborg beetles – controlling their gait
(Tech Xplore)—A small team of researchers at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore has taken the idea of controlling live insects using electronics a step further—by controlling its gait. In their paper published ...
Mar 30, 2016 report
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Engineering
Stanford engineer publicly refutes claim by Cambridge that a human Spider-Man could not exist
(Tech Xplore)—Engineer Elliot Hawkes and colleagues at Stanford University have dramatically rejected the claims made recently by zoologist David Labonte, of Cambridge University who in a press release stated that for a ...
Jan 29, 2016 report
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Computer Sciences
Why slowing down London's subway could make it more efficient
(Phys.org)—An international team of researchers has found that because of interconnectedness between methods of transportation, slowing down trains in London's subway (The Underground, or tube) would actually increase efficiency. ...
Sep 28, 2015 report
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