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New Artificial Swimmers Developed Using Oil and Water

Researchers mixed oil drops with water containing a detergent-like substance and found that it was viable to produce artificial swimmers capable of swimming separately and also harness energy to recharge.

16 Jul 2021

Tiny Synthetic Nanorobots can Effectively Escape Cavities in Maze-Like Environments

University of Colorado Boulder researchers have discovered that minuscule, self-propelled particles called "nanoswimmers" can escape from mazes as much as 20 times faster than other, passive particles, paving the way for their use in everything from industrial clean-ups to medication delivery.

30 Jun 2021

Oscillatory Motion of Micron-Scale Particles can Help Develop Microrobots

A challenging aspect in science and engineering fields is managing matter beyond the thermodynamic equilibrium to develop material systems that can rival those of living organisms.

24 Jun 2021

Metallic Microrobots Break Down the Plastics into Smaller Molecules

Small pieces of plastic are everywhere, stretching from urban environments to pristine wilderness. Left to their own devices, it can take hundreds of years for them to degrade completely.

10 Jun 2021

Artificial Cilia is Suitable for Versatile, Climbing Soft Robots, Microfluidic Devices

The rhythmic motions of hair-like cilia move liquids around cells or propel the cells themselves. In nature, cilia flap independently, and mimicking these movements with artificial materials requires complex mechanisms.

20 May 2021

Researchers Achieve Breakthrough in the Field of Swimming Biobots

Robotics field aims at mimicking what natural biological entities have achieved throughout millennia of evolution - actions like moving, adapting to the environment, or sensing.

23 Apr 2021

Army-Funded Researchers Create Nanosized, Foldable Robots

Army-funded researchers created nanosized robots that could enable locomotion, novel metamaterial design and high-fidelity sensors.

22 Mar 2021

Researchers Use Lasers to Create Microrobots from Bubbles

Robots are widely used to build cars, paint airplanes and sew clothing in factories, but the assembly of microscopic components, such as those for biomedical applications, has not yet been automated. Lasers could be the solution.

22 Jan 2021

Blaize Delivers First Open and Code-Free AI Software Platform Spanning the Entire Edge AI Application Lifecycle

Blaize today fully unveiled the Blaize AI Studio offering, the industry’s first open and code-free software platform to span the complete edge AI operational workflow from idea to development, deployment and management.

From Blaize 13 Dec 2020

Amphibious iFROG Robot Leaps Ahead in Ability to Inspect and Maintain Offshore Assets

iFROG, an amphibious robot capable of working in teams to clean and inspect monopiles above water level and up to 60 metres below (~6 bar), has successfully completed trials at the Offshore Renewable Energy (ORE) Catapult’s National Renewable Energy Centre in Blyth.

2 Dec 2020

Microbotics News

New Artificial Swimmers Developed Using Oil and Water

Tiny Synthetic Nanorobots can Effectively Escape Cavities in Maze-Like Environments

Oscillatory Motion of Micron-Scale Particles can Help Develop Microrobots

Metallic Microrobots Break Down the Plastics into Smaller Molecules

Artificial Cilia is Suitable for Versatile, Climbing Soft Robots, Microfluidic Devices

Researchers Achieve Breakthrough in the Field of Swimming Biobots

Army-Funded Researchers Create Nanosized, Foldable Robots

Researchers Use Lasers to Create Microrobots from Bubbles

Blaize Delivers First Open and Code-Free AI Software Platform Spanning the Entire Edge AI Application Lifecycle

Amphibious iFROG Robot Leaps Ahead in Ability to Inspect and Maintain Offshore Assets

The Robotic System Combating the Soft Plastic Recycling Crisis

The Development of an Algorithm that Helps Soft Robots Understand Their Surroundings

How a Team from MIT is Using an AI Tool to Detect Melanoma

Capitan Series Servo Drives

Single- and Multi-Pixel Capability in One Sensor - TeraRanger Evo Mini

High-Speed Automated Photonics Alignment System F-712 FMPA by PI

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The Robotic System Combating the Soft Plastic Recycling Crisis

The Development of an Algorithm that Helps Soft Robots Understand Their Surroundings

How a Team from MIT is Using an AI Tool to Detect Melanoma

Microbotics News

1 AI Uses Human-Like Capabilities to Imagine the Unseen

2 New Artificial Swimmers Developed Using Oil and Water

3 Novel Algorithm to Fly Autonomous Drones Faster than Human Pilots

4 Study Compares Simulation and Reality to Learn Robot Swarm Behavior

5 AI Helps Model Performance of Metal Additive Manufacturing

6 New Way to Customize the Mechanical Properties of Soft Robots

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