• Soft sensorized physical twin for harvesting raspberries

    An EPFL laboratory has created a silicone twin of a raspberry in order to train a robot to pick it with the required delicacy. Full article: https://actu.epfl.ch/news/silicone-raspberry-used-to-train-harvesting-robots/ Article en français: https:/...
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  • Engineers create a caterpillar-shaped robot that splits into segments, reassembles, hauls and crawls

    Read more at https://techxplore.com/news/2024-05-caterpillar-robot-segments-reassembles-hauls.html In this video: The soft robot can separate and reassemble, and it can crawl through twisting spaces. Credit: Princeton University Subscribe: https:/...
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  • Mori3: A polygon shape-shifting robot for space travel

    By combining inspiration from the digital world of polygon meshing and the biological world of swarm behavior, the Mori3 robot can morph from 2-D triangles into almost any 3-D object. Read more at https://techxplore.com/news/2023-06-mori3-polygon-...
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  • Reddmatter: The Future of Superconductivity

    Researchers not only raised the temperature, but also lowered the pressure required to achieve superconductivity. In a historic achievement, University of Rochester researchers have created a superconducting material at both a temperature and pres...
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  • The High Schooler Who Solved a Prime Number Theorem

    In his senior year of high school, Daniel Larsen proved a key theorem about Carmichael numbers — strange entities that mimic the primes. “It would be a paper that any mathematician would be really proud to have written,” said one mathematician. Re...
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  • 3D printing with drones

    Researchers have mounted 3D printers onto drones with the aim of creating swarms of robots that could 3D print entire buildings. The aerial vehicles were specially designed to be able to deposit a cement like material with enough precision to buil...
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  • Robotic motion in curved space defies standard laws of physics

    When humans, animals, and machines move throughout the world, they always push against something, whether it's the ground, air, or water. Until recently, physicists believed this to be a constant, following the law of conservation momentum. Now, r...
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  • A robotic Petri dish: How to grow human cells in a robot shoulder

    Human cells grown in the lab could one day be used for a variety of tissue grafts, but these cells need the right kind of environment and stimulation. New research suggests that robot bodies could provide tendon cells with the same kind of stretch...
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  • Printing tiny, high-precision objects in a matter of seconds

    Researchers at EPFL have developed a new, high-precision method for 3D-printing small, soft objects. The process, which takes less than 30 seconds from start to finish, has potential applications in a wide range of fields, including 3D bioprinting.
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  • The fold-able Japanese car: 'Earth-1'

    A Japanese company, Four Link, has created a car that "folds." It's called the Earth-1, and it can contort itself to fit into narrow spaces.
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  • Horizons science – Cimon

    ESA astronaut Alexander Gerst welcomed a new face to the Columbus laboratory, thanks to the successful commissioning of technology demonstration Cimon. Short for Crew Interactive Mobile CompanioN, Cimon is a 3D-printed plastic sphere designed to t...
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  • The Untethered RoboBee

    Changes to the Robobee — including an additional pair of wings and improvements to the actuators and transmission ratio — made the vehicle more efficient and allowed the addition of solar cells and an electronics panel. This Robobee is the first t...
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  • Robot-ants that can jump, communicate with each other and work together

    A team of EPFL researchers has developed tiny 10-gram robots that are inspired by ants: they can communicate with each other, assign roles among themselves and complete complex tasks together. These reconfigurable robots are simple in structure, y...
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  • NASA Climbing Robot Scales Cliffs and Looks for Life

    Robots can land on the Moon and drive on Mars, but what about the places they can't reach? Designed by engineers as NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, a four-limbed robot named LEMUR (Limbed Excursion Mechanical Utility Robo...
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  • Cockroach-inspired robots crashes into walls on purpose

    Tiny roach-bots ram their heads into walls to propel themselves upward. Read more: http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2018/02/watch-cockroach-inspired-robot-try-walk-through-walls Read the research: http://rsif.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/15/13...
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  • Astrobee robots will be sent to the International Space Station

    The robots were built and developed at NASA's Ames Research Center in California, where engineers created a mock-up of the interior of the International Space Station. Original Article: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-6891001/NASA-s...
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  • Animate materials - Mark Miodownik introduction

    The Royal Society is a Fellowship of many of the world's most eminent scientists and is the oldest scientific academy in continuous existence. Visit our website to learn more: https://royalsociety.org/ The Royal Society publishes leading science j...
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  • Design, Modeling and Control of Aerial Robot DRAGON

    “Design, Modeling and Control of Aerial Robot DRAGON: Dual-Rotor Embedded Multilink Robot with the Ability of Multi-Degree-of-Freedom Aerial Transformation,” by Moju Zhao, Tomoki Anzai, Fan Shi, Xiangyu Chen, Kei Okada, and Masayuki Inaba from The...
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  • Honeybee and Zebrafish Robots Connect Species

    One-day-old honeybees gather around a heat-emitting robot (left) while zebrafish swim with a robot in a donut-shaped aquarium. When the bee and fish robots transmit information about the behavior of the surrounding animals, it influences the behav...
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  • Meet Doggo: Stanford's student built, four-legged robot

    Putting their own twist on robots that amble through complicated landscapes, the Stanford Student Robotics club’s Extreme Mobility team at Stanford University has developed a four-legged robot that is not only capable of performing acrobatic trick...
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  • Simplifying soft robots

    This new, simplified soft robot, powered by pressurized air, replaces multiple control systems with one input, reducing the number, weight and complexity of the components needed to power the device.
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  • Soft Hands with Embodied Constraints: The Soft ScoopGripper,

    "Soft Hands with Embodied Constraints: The Soft ScoopGripper," by G. Salvietti, Z. Iqbal, M. Malvezzi, T. Eslami, and D. Prattichizzo from Universita degli Studi di Siena, Siena, Italy, and Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Genoa, Italy. Presented ...
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  • ‘Flying fish’ robot can propel itself out of water and glide through the air

    A bio-inspired bot uses water from the environment to create a gas and launch itself from the water’s surface. Find out more: https://www.imperial.ac.uk/news/192826/flying-fish-robot-propel-itself-water/
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  • Exoskeleton Controlled by a Brain-Machine Interface

    Brain implants allow a tetraplegic patient to control a whole-body exoskeleton with brain signals in a proof-of-concept demonstration published in The Lancet Neurology. The patient uses two wireless chronically implanted brain-computer interfaces ...
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  • NASA Live: Official Stream of NASA TV

    Direct from America's space program to YouTube, watch NASA TV live streaming here to get the latest from our exploration of the universe and learn how we discover our home planet. NASA TV airs a variety of regularly scheduled, pre-recorded educati...
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