Jellyfish-inspired soft robots can outswim their natural counterparts Engineering researchers at North Carolina State University and Temple University have developed soft robots inspired by jellyfish that can outswim their real-life counterparts. More practically, the new […]
Training robots to identify object placements by ‘hallucinating’ scenes With more robots now making their way into a number of settings, researchers are trying to make their interactions with humans as smooth and natural as […]
Team builds the first living robots A book is made of wood. But it is not a tree. The dead cells have been repurposed to serve another need. Now a team of scientists has repurposed […]
Fire ant colonies could inspire molecular machines, swarming robots Think of it as mathematics with a bite: Researchers at CU Boulder have uncovered the statistical rules that govern how gigantic colonies of fire ants form […]
How to mass produce cell-sized robots Tiny robots no bigger than a cell could be mass-produced using a new method developed by researchers at MIT. The microscopic devices, which the team calls “syncells” (short for […]
Japan space robots start asteroid survey A pair of robot rovers have landed on an asteroid and begun a survey, Japan’s space agency said Saturday, as it conducts a mission aiming to shed light on […]