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New Rechargeable Zinc Battery Integrated in Robots Provides More Energy

A team of researchers, under the guidance of the University of Michigan, has demonstrated a novel rechargeable zinc battery that combines with the structure of a robot to deliver relatively more energy—similar to how biological fat reserves preserve energy in animals.

20 Aug 2020

Engineers Develop a New Way to Design, Fabricate, and Actuate Microbots

The principles of origami—Japanese art of folding—could help unleash the power of the smallest robots, thereby improving agility, speed, and control in machines measuring just about a centimeter.

31 Jul 2020

Mini Plastic Robot Moves Under the Effect of Light and Magnetism

A plastic miniature robot, composed of responsive polymers, has been developed by scientists from the Eindhoven University of Technology.

15 Jul 2020

Plastic Mini Robot Moves Under the Influence of Light and Magnetism

Inspired by a coral polyp, this plastic mini robot moves by magnetism and light.

15 Jul 2020

HAI ROBOTICS Launches World's First Carton-picking & Double-deep Autonomous Case-Handling Robotic System

HAI ROBOTICS announced the launch of two new HAIPICK robots: the world's first carton-picking ACR HAIPICK A42N and double-deep ACR HAIPICK A42D.

From HAI ROBOTICS 16 Jun 2020

Researchers Develop Smallest, Most Dexterous Cockroach-Inspired Robot

HAMR-JR, a minuscule robot developed by researchers from the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) and the Harvard Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering, cannot climb up the waterspout.

4 Jun 2020

New Artificial Magnetic Cilia Could Find Applications in Microrobotics

Artificial cilia, or hair-like structures, developed by researchers from North Carolina State University and Elon University have the ability to bend into novel shapes when subjected to a magnetic field.

27 May 2020

New Microrobots Could Perform Distributed Sensing of Material Defects

A majority of the synthetic materials, such as those in battery electrodes, catalysts, and polymer membranes, tend to deteriorate with time since they lack intrinsic repair mechanisms.

11 Dec 2019

Intelligent Microrobots can be Reprogrammed to Carry Out Different Tasks

At the Paul Scherrer Institute PSI and ETH Zurich, scientists have created an innovative micromachine that is capable of carrying out a variety of actions.

7 Nov 2019

Resilient, Eight-Wing RoboBee Powered by Soft Artificial Muscles

A RoboBee rushing toward a wall or bumping into a glass box might have caused panic earlier among scientists at the Harvard Microrobotics Laboratory at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Science (SEAS).

5 Nov 2019