Targeted stiffening yields more efficient soft robot arms
The current crop of AI robots has made giant leaps when it comes to tiny activities.
The current crop of AI robots has made giant leaps when it comes to tiny activities.
Researchers at three Japanese universities exploring the potential benefits of collaborations between robots and living creatures found bugs in their project.
Inspired by sea cucumbers, engineers have designed miniature robots that rapidly and reversibly shift between liquid and solid states. On top of being able to shape-shift, the robots are magnetic and can conduct electricity. ...
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Sea cucumbers have a bumpy and oblong shape. They are soft but stiffen up quickly when touched. They can shrink or stretch to several meters, and their original shape can be recovered even after they die and shrivel up with ...
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Could robots, whose forms can be adapted to achieve almost any real-world task, soon be able to lend a hand in understanding the paleoecology tracing of extinct organisms?
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