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Northwestern Engineers Create the Smallest-Ever Remote-Controlled Walking Crab-Shaped Robot

Engineers at Northwestern University have created the tiniest-ever remote-regulated walking robot in the form of a miniature, attractive peekytoe crab.

26 May 2022

Engineers Develop a Robotic Gripper with Rich Sensory Capabilities

It is difficult to get rid of the image of a massive metallic robot that communicates in monotone and keeps moving in lumbering, deliberate steps.

18 Apr 2022

ACM Prize in Computing in Recognition of Pieter Abbeel’s Contributions to Contemporary Robotics

Recently, the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) has bestowed the 2021 ACM Prize in Computing to Pieter Abbeel for his contributions to robot learning, including deep reinforcement learning for robotic control and learning from demonstrations.

7 Apr 2022

Insect-Inspired Robots Designed to Monitor Hard-to-Reach Areas

Insects can squeeze through the smallest cracks, fit comfortably into constricted spaces, and survive in extreme environments. Basically, there are not many spaces that are out-of-bounds to an insect.

4 Mar 2022

Novel Soft Haptic Sensor Provides Fingertip Sensitivity for Robots

A team of researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems (MPI-IS) present a powerful soft haptic sensor called “Insight” that utilizes computer vision and a deep neural network to exactly approximate the place where objects come into contact with the sensor and the size of the applied forces.

25 Feb 2022

Autonomously Swimming Biohybrid Fish Recreates the Muscle Contractions of a Pumping Heart

Harvard University researchers, in collaboration with colleagues from Emory University, have developed the first fully autonomous biohybrid fish from human stem-cell derived cardiac muscle cells. The artificial fish swims by recreating the muscle contractions of a pumping heart, bringing researchers one step closer to developing a more complex artificial muscular pump and providing a platform to study heart disease like arrhythmia.

11 Feb 2022

Researchers 3D Print a Soft Robotic Hand Agile Enough to Play World 1-1

World 1-1 is considered to be the most iconic opening in the history of video games. It is a perfect example of Super Mario Bros.’ pure and simple ingredients, and its tight yet pleasing gameplay—run, jump, smash, and squash.

7 Sep 2021

New Way to Customize the Mechanical Properties of Soft Robots

Researchers from the Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD) have developed a novel automated process for designing and fabricating tailored soft robots. This could be achieved by merging two different approaches into an integrated workflow.

8 Jul 2021

Insect-Scale Robot can Swerve and Pivot with the Agility of a Cheetah

Many insects and spiders get their uncanny ability to scurry up walls and walk upside down on ceilings with the help of specialized sticky footpads that allow them to adhere to surfaces in places where no human would dare to go.

5 Jul 2021

Bio-Inspired Robot Demonstrates Ray Sperms' Unique Swimming Motion

It is generally agreed that sperms "swim" by beating or rotating their soft tails. However, a research team led by scientists from City University of Hong Kong has discovered that ray sperms move by rotating both the tail and the head.

11 Jun 2021