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Mobile microrobots offer great promise for minimally invasive targeted medical theranostic applications at hard-to-access regions inside the human body. The circulatory system represents the ideal route for navigation; however, blood … Read More
Fluidic soft actuators are enlarging the robotics toolbox by providing flexible elements that can display highly complex deformations. Although these actuators are adaptable and inherently safe, their actuation speed is … Read More
Autonomous robots and vehicles must occasionally recover from locomotion failure in loosely consolidated granular terrain. Recent mobility challenges led NASA Johnson Space Center to develop a prototype robotic lunar rover … Read More
Recent science fiction illustrates the value of ordinary robots for a pandemic. Source: Science Mag: Robots and pandemics in science fiction
Robots have the potential to assist and complement humans in the study and exploration of extreme and hostile environments. For example, valuable scientific data have been collected with the aid … Read More
Volvo Will Add Lidar for ‘Eyes-Off-the-Road’ Self-Driving Cars on Highways It’s 2020. Why can’t we binge Netflix as our cars drive us down the highway? Well, we’ve made progress, but … Read More
NASA has put together a very wide range of activities for children to do at home. There are games, projects, slideshows and videos covering engineering, maths science and technology. There … Read More
Robots to the Rescue: How They Can Help During Coronavirus (and Future Pandemics) As the coronavirus pandemic forces people to keep their distance, could this be robots‘ time to shine? … Read More
Not Bot, Not Beast: Scientists Create First Ever Living, Programmable Organism A remarkable combination of artificial intelligence (AI) and biology has produced the world’s first “living robots.” This week, a … Read More
What Needs to Happen to Get to the Flying Car Future At this year’s Consumer Electronics Show, one of the world’s largest helicopter manufacturers will showcase what a city might … Read More
