Robotic lightning bugs take flight
Fireflies that light up dusky backyards on warm summer evenings use their luminescence for communication—to attract a mate, ward off predators or lure prey.
Jun 21, 2022
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Robotics
SQuad: A miniature robot that can walk and climb obstacles
Researchers at Bilkent University in Turkey have recently created a small quadruped robot called SQuad, which is made of soft structural materials. This unique robot, presented in a paper published in IEEE Robotics and Automation ...
Robotics
RoboBee powered by soft muscles
The sight of a RoboBee careening towards a wall or crashing into a glass box may have once triggered panic in the researchers in the Harvard Microrobotics Laboratory at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and ...
Nov 4, 2019
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Technique speeds up thermal actuation for soft robotics
Researchers from North Carolina State University have come up with a new design for thermal actuators, which can be used to create rapid movement in soft robotic devices.
Dec 13, 2021
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Soft artificial muscles developed for robot motion
Researchers at ETH Zurich have recently developed artificial muscles for robot motion. Their solution offers several advantages over previous technologies: It can be used wherever robots need to be soft rather than rigid ...
Jan 30, 2024
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Combining turgor design and electro-osmosis to create strong and fast hydrogel actuators
A team of researchers at Seoul National University has created a stronger and faster hydrogel actuator by combining turgor design and electro-osmosis. In their paper published in the journal Science, the group describes their ...
Hardware
Team designs four-legged robotic system that can walk a balance beam
Researchers in Carnegie Mellon University's Robotics Institute (RI) have designed a system that makes an off-the-shelf quadruped robot nimble enough to walk a narrow balance beam—a feat that is likely the first of its kind.
Apr 17, 2023
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Soft components for the next generation of soft robotics
Soft robots driven by pressurized fluids could explore new frontiers and interact with delicate objects in ways that traditional rigid robots can't. But building entirely soft robots remains a challenge because many of the ...
Sep 9, 2021
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Mechanical engineers develop new high-performance artificial muscle technology
In the field of robotics, researchers are continually looking for the fastest, strongest, most efficient and lowest-cost ways to actuate, or enable, robots to make the movements needed to carry out their intended functions.
Apr 21, 2021
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A cleaner approach to refrigeration using a squeezable metal
A team of material scientists at the University of Maryland, working with one colleague from Jiaotong University and another from Beihang University, both in China, has developed a cleaner approach to building cooling systems ...
