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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