The 1-guilla robotic eel’s underwater undulations could provide insight into how eels can migrate thousands of miles without eating. (Image credit: EPFL)
Researchers at EPFL (Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne) have developed a robotic e...
The Tire Assault Vehicle helped defuse Space Shuttle tires that were too dangerous for humans to undertake. (Image Credit: NASA)
Seems so wasteful.
In 1993, NASA performed stress tests on its Space Shuttle tires for eventual upgrades. However, the t...
(Image credit: NASA)
NASA has been a hotbed of discoveries over the last few months – new exoplanets, new Mars images, potential asteroid mining and more. Using the long defunct Kepler Space Telescope, NASA scientists have discovered a system ...
The team's robot swarm imitates the communication process of bees by wiggling when they find a new hive spot. (Image Credit: arXiv (2023).)
University of Barcelona researchers developed a mini wiggling robot swarm that interacts like scout bees...
The bird deterrent scares birds away from crops by shooting a green laser beam. (Image Credit: Bird Control Group)
Seems birds are living in a dystopian future. At least it's harmless.
Many farmers grow frustrated with birds inflicting damage to...
Mika handles artist selection for label creation and is a headhunter for potential clients. (Image credit: Dictador)
It doesn't take weekends off, is always on 24/7, spots potential clients and selects artists to design liquor bottles. Those ar...
The Monster Wolf scares away any unwanted creatures from farmlands and other human territories. (Image Credit: Wolf Kamuy)
This should be a regular Halloween yard decoration.
Japan has come up with a clever way to keep predators at bay from its land...
By using advanced, smart materials, tiny, soft robots could be useful for medical applications like biopsies and cell/tissue transportation. (Image Credit: Waterloo Engineering/YouTube)
University of Waterloo researchers developed smart, advanc...
(Image Credit: Russian Aluminum Association/pixabay) Recently, over a dozen companies, including big names like Pepsi, Ford, Ball Corporation, and GM, requested federal funding to help address demands for a domestic, clean aluminum supply. The lett...
Laser graphene can be used to fabricate bio, gas, temperature, and humidity sensors. (Image Credit: TranSpread)
Graphene is usually prepared via different techniques such as chemical vapor deposition (CVD), epitaxial growth, mechanical exfoliation,...
Dexterity’s package-loading robot can stack packages atop each other in delivery trucks at FedEx. (Image Credit: Dexterity)
FedEx recently introduced DexR, a two-armed robot designed to autonomously put packages in delivery trucks like a Tetri...
Alef Aeronautics’ Model A flying car tilts 90 degrees in flight mode, allowing it to face forward. (Image Credit: Alef Aeronautics)
I’ve been in so many accidents driving on a 2D plane that I can’t even imagine the disasters that a...
Image showing the robotic components like the steerable needle, bronchoscope, and actuation unit. (Image Credit: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
Lung cancer claims more lives than any other cancer type in the US. It’s difficu...
The sensors on these robotics help emergency responders come up with a plan at a disaster scene. (Image Credit: FLYMOTION LLC)
Squishy Robotics has turned its robot from a space concept into a tech designed for special operations on Earth. It first...
The microfliers developed by the UW researchers transform while gliding through the air. They’re designed to survey the atmosphere and environment. (Image Credit: Mark Stone/University of Washington)
The University of Washington researchers ha...
The small CLARI robot can change shape to fit tight spaces and be used in disaster zones to help first responders. (Image Credit: Casey Cass/CU Boulder)
University of Colorado, Boulder engineers built CLARI (Compliant Legged Articulated Robotic Inse...
The medical robot developed by Sheffield University has two robotic arms to treat casualties in dangerous places. (Image Credit: SHEFFIELD UNIVERSITY/SWNS)
The University of Sheffield researchers used medical telexistence (MediTel) technology to de...
The team's new robotic gripper is precise, strong, delicate, and dexterous enough to handle objects. (Image Credit: North Carolina State University)
North Carolina State University researchers created a robotic gripper that possesses e...
Frank Rubio controlled a team of robots from the International Space Station. (Image Credit: NASA/ESA)
To test out the idea of humans and robots working together on the moon, astronaut Frank Rubio, stationed on the ISS, controlled robots to perform ...
Researchers designed an application that defines the reachability and dexterity of eye surgery robots. (Image Credit: Unsplash)
Researchers from University College London (UCL), Kings College London (KCL), and Moorfields Eye Hospital have partnered...
ROSE can pick up all sorts of objects, even if the sleeve is damaged. (Image Credit: JSAID)
Robots must be more careful while grasping brittle objects to avoid damaging them, and one way to do that involves a special gripper integration. JSAIT resea...
TartanPest has a robotic arm that removes a spotted lanternfly egg mass from trees in fields or forests. (Carnegie Mellon University)
The spotted lanternfly, an invasive pest, can be very tiresome, annoying, and destructive. And humans turn to crush...
The pill bug acts as an end effector on the mechanical robot’s arm. (Image Credit: Tadakuma Mechanism Group, Tohoku University)
Animal abuse for science never ends, as I drew in cartoon over 10 years ago. What happened to biomimicry? You may ...
The ANDI robot was developed to help scientists better understand how extreme heat affects the human body. (Image Credit: Christopher Goulet/ASU)
The United States is expected to get hit with higher temperatures and more intense heat waves in the ne...
The team’s robot can pull memory and read its contents. (Image credit: Ang Cui, Red Balloon Security)
We’re familiar with collecting chip data via freezing methods, but now this can be automated with robots. During the Recon reverse engi...
