robotics

Trace Exhibition - Patrick Tresset

The Ghost Inside the Artist

10/12/2019

Patrick Tresset: Robotic Portraits. Understanding the purpose of art by design, an interview....

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Could Robotic Arms Become Thought-Controlled Limbs?

01/12/2017

Amputees can learn to control a robotic arm with their minds ...

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soft robots

Will Humanity Succumb to Origami-Powered Soft Robots?

30/11/2017

Artificial muscles give soft robots superpowers ...

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rhino, skin, 3-d printed

3-D Printed Bionic Skin for Touchy Feely Robots

15/05/2017

3-D-printed 'bionic skin' could give robots the sense of touch ...

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Soft-Touch Robotics, Coming to a Rub Shop Near You

16/12/2016

New robot has a human touch ...

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In-hand eye

If You Knew Where a Hand Had Been, Would You Still Shake It? In-hand Eye Improves Robotics

17/05/2016

Robot's in-hand eye maps surroundings and determines hand's location ...

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wireframe head

Are You Being Servo’d? Cybathlon: The Olympics of Assistive Technologies

16/02/2016

A global Olympic-style competition to advance assistive & robotic technologies...

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Is This Your Next-Gen Submersible Drone? The Harvard RoboBee

23/10/2015

Harvard Microrobotics Lab develops first insect-size robot capable of flying and swimming...

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soft-bodied jumping robot

Seeking (and finding) the Soft-Bodied Jumping Robot

14/07/2015

By seamlessly blending soft and rigid body parts -- a structural innovation used by animals and insects -- a team of Harvard scientists has created a new kind of durable, soft-bodied jumping robot...

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superhero by Ramdlon

The Rise if the Robopets. Or not.

14/05/2015

When engineers work on robotic dogs, they work on social intelligence, they address what people need from their dogs: companionship, love, obedience, dependence...

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Surgery

Mind-Controlled Bionic Austrians (No, really)

25/02/2015

ome news stories just seem destined to become retweets. Take the following breakthrough in surgical prostheses featuring mind-controlled bionic hands successfully applied to three separate Austrian...

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An illustration by Dan Booth

Soft Robot Develops Independent Action

14/09/2014

Researchers tested the robot in snow, submerged it in water, walked it through flames, and even ran it over with a car, and after each experiment, it walked away unscathed....

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Cockroach

Cockroach Robotics

03/03/2013

Running cockroaches start to recover from being shoved sideways before their dawdling nervous system kicks in to tell their legs what to do, researchers have found....

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