Nov 2, 2016 @ 20:51 | By Hillary Sanctuary EPFL scientists have developed a new type of composite thread that varies in stiffness depending on its temperature. Applications range from multi-functional robots to knitted casts, and even tunable medical devices. A new type of thread has been developed at EPFL that varies in stiffness depending on its […]
Sep 25, 2016 @ 18:43 | Science of Safety – Portsmouth Robotics Demonstration Two of DOE’s premier national labs – Savannah River and Sandia – provide technical leadership and coordination in addition to demonstrating some of their technologies. Two other world-class federal labs provided their technologies – NASA and JHU-APL, which is a university affiliated […]
Sep 19, 2016 @ 19:19 | The SMORES modules can connect to one another using four electro-permanent (EP) magnets on each face to Accomplishing Tasks. SMORES (Self-assembling Modular Robot for Extreme Shape-shifting) is a modular robot developed at the GRASP Lab, University of Pennsylvania. Each module has four degrees of freedom (pan, tilt, and left/right wheels). […]
Aug 5, 2016 @ 18:57 | OUROBOT – A self Propelled Continuous Track Robot for Rugged Terrain Computer Engineering Students of Bielefeld University of Applied Sciences have reinvented the wheel. They developed a new kind of robotic wheel – Ourobot. Ourobot moves and overcomes obstacle like tank. It looks like a closed bicycle chain with […]
Aug 1, 2016 @ 17:03 | The first SAW (Single Actuator Wave-like Robot) that produces a pure wave motion using a single motor has been developed at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. The SAW robot is designed for medical applications, maintenance, search and rescue and security scenarios. The unique robot was developed by Dr. David […]
Jul 8, 2016 @ 15:16 | Georgia Tech | When early terrestrial animals began moving about on mud and sand 360 million years ago, the powerful tails they used as fish may have been more important than scientists previously realized. That’s one conclusion from a new study of African mudskipper fish and a robot, MuddyBot modeled […]
Jun 29, 2016 @ 17:56 | EPFL | Bio-Inspired researchers are continuously investigating different types of animal locomotion and trying to make such robots that can exactly mimic the natural motions. MIT Cheetah, CMU Snake, UCB Cockroach, Boston Dynamics Dog, Harvard RoboBees, Sydney University CROC and Greogre Washigton University Sea lion inspired robot are some […]
Jun 7, 2016 @ 20:59 | CMU | USA | Our real world is full of unstructured and complex environments and natural creatures move through these environments very smoothly with adaptability and robustness. Scientists are trying to understand deeply that how natural creatures are controlling their motions on such complex terrains and want to make […]