Robotics
When the Wright brothers accomplished their first powered flight more than a century ago, they controlled the motion of their Flyer 1 aircraft using wires and pulleys that bent and twisted the wood-and-canvas wings. This ...
Nov 3, 2016
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Engineering
Anyone who's watched drone videos or an episode of "BattleBots" knows that robots can break—and often it's because they don't have the proper padding to protect themselves.
Oct 4, 2016
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Robotics
A team of Harvard University researchers with expertise in 3D printing, mechanical engineering, and microfluidics has demonstrated the first autonomous, untethered, entirely soft robot. This small, 3D-printed robot—nicknamed ...
Aug 24, 2016
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(Tech Xplore)—A team of researchers working at Harvard University with assistance from other scientists across the globe has succeed in creating a soft robot that mimics the swimming style of a real stingray—and it is guided ...
Robotics
When early terrestrial animals began moving about on mud and sand 360 million years ago, the powerful tails they used as fish may have been more important than scientists previously realized. That's one conclusion from a ...
Jul 7, 2016
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Engineering
One reason we don't yet have robot personal assistants buzzing around doing our chores is because making them is hard. Assembling robots by hand is time-consuming, while automation—robots building other robots—is not yet ...
Apr 6, 2016
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Robotics
We love the impressive video watch of Atlas biped models, super-sized machine wonders trekking through craggy terrain, undeterred by snow, mud and ice, ready to haul supplies and go where no humans dare to go in times of ...
Robotics
If something feels sticky, we flex our hand by instinct, we move second, third, fourth fingers at will without a second thought, we cross one finger over the other as if to make a wish; we touch finger to thumb to make a ...
Robotics
Some years ago, when Ebola was not in any global news headlines, researchers presented their paper, "Use of Medical Robotics in Biothreat Situations" to an American Medical Informatics Association symposium where they said ...
Machine learning & AI
Robots are trained for specific tasks, such as cutting, using simulation. However, collecting real-world data is expensive, slow, and sometimes unsafe, particularly for tasks involving physical interaction. A new AI-based ...
May 6, 2026
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