Rutgers University–New Brunswick engineers have created a 3D-printed smart gel that walks underwater and grabs objects and moves them. The watery creation could lead to soft robots that mimic sea animals like…
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Tiny Wireless Flying Robotic Insect “RoboFly” gets power from Laser beam
Insect-sized flying robots could help with time-consuming tasks like surveying crop growth on large farms or sniffing out gas leaks. These robots soar by fluttering tiny wings because they are too small…
Robot Teaches Itself How to Dress People
More than 1 million Americans require daily physical assistance to get dressed because of injury, disease and advanced age. Robots could potentially help, but cloth and the human body are complex. To…
Device makes clean water with paper and sunlight
The idea of using energy from the sun to evaporate and purify water is ancient. The Greek philosopher Aristotle reportedly described such a process more than 2,000 years ago. Now, University at Buffalo…
MIT Builds a Self-Driving Car for Unmapped Country Roads
Today’s autonomous vehicles require hand-labeled 3-D maps, but MIT CSAIL’s MapLite system enables navigation with just GPS and sensors. MapLite combines simple GPS data that you’d find on Google Maps with a…