Engineering
Engineers get under robot's skin to heighten senses
10 Dec 2016
Most robots achieve grasping and tactile sensing through motorised means, which can be excessively bulky and rigid. A Cornell University group has devised a way for a soft robot to feel its surroundings internally, in much the same way humans do
New 'printone' tool allows users to create 3-D printed wind instruments in any shape or form
06 Dec 2016
A new twist on airplane wing design
11 Nov 2016
The basic principle behind the new concept is the use of an array of tiny, lightweight structural pieces, which Gershenfeld calls “digital materials,” that can be assembled into a virtually infinite variety of shapes, much like assembling a structure from Lego blocks
Rocka bye baby, sleep on this robotics baby bed
19 Oct 2016
World's first robotic surgical system with sense of touch developed
04 Oct 2016
A world-first innovation will give surgeons the sense of touch while they drive a robot to conduct keyhole surgery via a computer
China's drone manufacturer DJI unveils Mavic Pro
29 Sep 2016
Nanodiamonds in an instant
06 Sep 2016
US researchers developing 3D food printer
02 Aug 2016
Researchers build a crawling robot from sea slug parts and a 3-D printed body
20 Jul 2016
Researchers at Case Western Reserve University have combined tissues from a sea slug with flexible 3-D printed components to build “biohybrid” robots that crawl like sea turtles on the beach
Robot earns its shoes, walks like a person
19 Jul 2016
What do you give a robot when it takes its first steps like a human? Its first pair of shoes
Indestructible bridges could be reality
18 Jul 2016
Robotic Motion Planning in Real-Time
22 Jun 2016
Robotic clothes folder Foldimate to debut in 2018
09 Jun 2016
After clothes are folded, they are steamed individually to minimise wrinkling and can be given a softening or sanitising treatment before being stacked on to the folded pile
Researchers create Rubik's Cube-like smartphone
18 May 2016
The device features OLED touchscreens on each of its six faces, while a hinge-mounted turntable mechanism allows it to self-reconfigure itself in the user's hand
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