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Video: Cornell Researchers Create Artificial Foam Heart

October 16, 2015

Team demonstrates a pump they made into a heart, mimicking both shape and function

A Light Touch May Help Animals and Robots Move on Sand and Snow

October 13, 2015

Work expands the general applicability of researchers' resistive force theory of terradynamics

Bio-Inspired Robotic Finger Looks, Feels and Works Like the Real Thing

October 9, 2015

Because of its light weight, dexterity and strength, robotic design offers advantages over traditional mechanisms

Microscopic Fish are 3-D-Printed to Do More Than Swim

August 26, 2015

Researchers demonstrate a novel method to build microscopic robots with complex shapes and functionalities

Building a Better Lawn-Mowing Robot

July 14, 2015

New robotic lawn mowing technology aims to deliver freshly cut yards with little set-up.

Tiny Origami Robot

July 2, 2015

Controlled by magnetic fields, tiny robot climbs inclines, swims, and carries loads twice its weight

Engineers Develop Micro-Tentacles so Tiny Robots can Handle Delicate Objects

June 23, 2015

The microtubes are just 8 millimeters long and less than a hundredth of an inch wide.

'Protein Map' Reveals Traffic of Life in a Cell

June 8, 2015

Data from 20 million cells collected by U of T researchers to develop detailed cell map.

Using Robots at Berkeley Lab, Scientists Assemble Promising Antimicrobial Compounds

June 3, 2015

There’s an urgent demand for new antimicrobial compounds that are effective against constantly emerging drug-resistant ...

Controlling a Robotic Arm with a Patient's Intentions

May 26, 2015

Neural prosthetic devices implanted in the brain's movement center, the motor cortex, can allow patients with amputations or ...

Researchers Develop Intelligent Handheld Robots

May 26, 2015

What if handheld tools know what needs to be done and were even able to guide and help inexperienced users to complete jobs t...

Standard Knowledge for Robots

May 20, 2015

What do you know? There is now a world standard for capturing and conveying the knowledge that robots possess&mdash...

Researchers Hack a Teleoperated Surgical Robot to Reveal Security Flaws

May 9, 2015

To make cars as safe as possible, we crash them into walls to pinpoint weaknesses and better protect people who use them....

Meet the Robot that Uses Conventional Pipettes

April 13, 2015

One of the standout products at SLAS2015 last month was Andrew Alliance’s Andrew pipetting robot.

Tiny Bio-Robot is a Germ Suited-Up with Graphene Quantum Dots

March 26, 2015

As nanotechnology makes possible a world of machines too tiny to see, researchers are finding ways to combine living organism...

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