This lovely robot could help catch good portrait photo
Good portrait photography is as much art as it is science.
There are technical details like composition and lighting, but there’s also a matter of...
Scientists create advanced soft robots with liquid crystal elastomers
The pink strip lies flat on a black-and-white checkerboard surface.
It's rubbery—gummy, almost—and just thicker than an unrolled fruit leather snack. At a glance, the...
Squid-inspired robot swims with nature’s most efficient marine animals
Scientists at the University of Southampton and University of Edinburgh have developed a flexible underwater robot that can propel itself through water in the...
This laser-steering microrobot could refine minimally invasive surgeries
Robotic engineers from Harvard’s Wyss Institute and John A. Paulson School for Engineering and Applied Science (SEAS) have developed a laser-steering microrobot that can...
Fish-inspired robots could move freely without any outside control
These fish-inspired robots can synchronize their movements without any outside control.
Based on the simple production and detection of LED light, the robotic collective...
Spontaneous robot dances reveal a new kind of order in active matter
Researchers have proposed a new principle by which active matter systems can spontaneously order, without need for higher level instructions.
Predicting when and how collections...
Scientists design new soft robotic gripper from pole beans
Scientists often look to nature for cues when designing robots - some robots mimic human hands while others simulate the actions of octopus arms...
Your robot vacuum could spy on you
Researchers have shown that it’s possible to spy on private conversations using a common robot vacuum cleaner and its built-in Light Detection and Ranging...
Old dog training methods teach robots new tricks
With a training technique commonly used to teach dogs to sit and stay, researchers showed a robot how to teach itself several new tricks,...
This pufferfish like robot could help drones fly safely
If you get too close to a pufferfish, this undersea creature will blow up like a balloon to scare you away.
Now, a team of...