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Shape-shifting robots (w/ Video)

By combining origami and electrical engineering, researchers at MIT and Harvard are working to develop the ultimate reconfigurable robot -- one that can turn into absolutely anything. The researchers have ...

Technology / Engineering

created Aug 05, 2010 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (8) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Space Robot Can Autonomously Reconfigure Itself

A robot designed to work in space should ideally be a Jack of all trades, with the ability to perform a wide variety of tasks by itself. By having one robot that can handle many jobs, astronauts can cut down ...

Electronics / Robotics

created Jun 15, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (14) | comments 6 feature




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Origami-inspired design method merges engineering, art

Researchers have shown how to create morphing robotic mechanisms and shape-shifting sculptures from a single sheet of paper in a method reminiscent of origami, the Japanese art of paper folding.

Technology / Engineering

created May 21, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

America expands once again -- digitally, this time

(AP) -- The metaphor is an easy one, overused and perhaps even a bit overwrought. We are forging forward into a digital frontier, leaving convention behind, traveling without guides into an uncharted virtual ...

Technology / Other

created May 19, 2012 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (6) | comments 1

Study shows developing organisms can identify and fix abnormalities in head and face

Developmental biologists at Tufts University have identified a "self-correcting" mechanism by which developing organisms recognize and repair head and facial abnormalities. This is the first time that such ...

Biology / Other

created Apr 25, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Self-sculpting sand could allow spontaneous formation of new tools, duplication of broken mechanical parts

Imagine that you have a big box of sand in which you bury a tiny model of a footstool. A few seconds later, you reach into the box and pull out a full-size footstool: The sand has assembled itself into a large-scale ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Apr 02, 2012 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (15) | comments 6 | with audio podcast

NRL designs robot for shipboard firefighting

(PhysOrg.com) -- In both war and peacetime scenarios, fire in the shipboard environment is serious and frequently results in excessive damage and high repair costs because the fire is not detected or controlled ...

Electronics / Robotics

created Mar 08, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Robot assembles truss structures autonomously

(PhysOrg.com) -- Like something straight out of "Star Wars," armies of robots could nimbly be crawling up towers and skyscrapers to make repairs in the not-so-distant future, so humans don't have to.

Electronics / Robotics

created Feb 28, 2012 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (6) | comments 37 | with audio podcast

Scientists see red on NASA cuts of Mars missions

NASA said Monday it's not giving up on Mars, but it'll have to get there later and at a lower price.

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Feb 27, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (6) | comments 8

DNA nanorobot triggers targeted therapeutic responses

Researchers at the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University have developed a robotic device made from DNA that could potentially seek out specific cell targets within a complex ...

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Feb 16, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (9) | comments 8 | with audio podcast

Argonne scientists design self-assembled "micro-robots"

(PhysOrg.com) -- Alexey Snezhko and Igor Aronson, physicists at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory, have coaxed "micro-robots" to do their bidding.

Physics / General Physics

created Aug 09, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (6) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

iMobot modular robot technology licensed

The University of California, Davis has signed an exclusive license agreement with Barobo, Inc. of West Sacramento, Calif., to commercialize the modular robot technology called "iMobot" – an Intelligent ...

Electronics / Robotics

created Jul 12, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0


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