Search results for robotics

Plants & Animals Mar 2, 2022

The physics of fire ant rafts could help engineers design swarming robots

Noah rode out his flood in an ark. Winnie-the-Pooh had an upside-down umbrella. Fire ants (Solenopsis invicta), meanwhile, form floating rafts made up of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of individual insects.

Economics & Business Feb 24, 2022

Robots are increasing mortality among US adults

The automation of U.S. manufacturing—robots replacing people on factory floors—is fueling rising mortality rate among America's working-age adults, according to a new study by researchers at Yale and the University of ...

Nanophysics Feb 16, 2022

A robotic method for assembling complex van der Waals solids

2D van der Waals crystals, a class of materials that exhibit strong in-plane covalent bonds and weak interlayer interactions, have recently become the focus of numerous research studies due to their plethora of unique electrical, ...

Astronomy Jan 21, 2022

Astronomers focus robotic eyes on the Milky Way, our cosmic home

Thanks to a breakthrough robotic innovation, an international collaboration that includes the University of Toronto has advanced the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS), a 20-year-long research project that has been investigating ...

Ecology Dec 21, 2021

How to prevent mass extinction in the ocean using AI, robots and 3D printers

The ocean is the most defining physical feature of Earth, covering 71% of the surface of this planet. It is home to incredible biodiversity, ranging from microscopic bacteria and viruses to the largest animal on Earth, the ...

Planetary Sciences Dec 13, 2021

NASA begins testing robotics to bring first samples back from Mars

Engineers are developing the crucial hardware needed for a series of daring space missions that will be carried out in the coming decade.

Space Exploration Dec 3, 2021

Lightweight space robot with precise control developed

Robots are already in space. From landers on the moon to rovers on Mars and more, robots are the perfect candidates for space exploration: they can bear extreme environments while consistently repeating the same tasks in ...

Social Sciences Nov 24, 2021

Robots in Europe vote for the radical right

Exposure to automation led to an increase in support for radical-right parties in Western European countries between the late 1990s and 2016, according to a newly published study byBocconi professors Massimo Anelli, Italo ...

Space Exploration Oct 20, 2021

NASA challenges K-12 students to design moon-digging robots

NASA seeks young engineers to help design a new robot concept for an excavation mission on the Moon. The Lunabotics Junior Contest is open to K-12 students in U.S. public and private schools, as well as home-schoolers.

Bio & Medicine Oct 15, 2021

How to program DNA robots to poke and prod cell membranes

Scientists have worked out how to best get DNA to communicate with membranes in our body, paving the way for the creation of 'mini biological computers' in droplets that have potential uses in biosensing and mRNA vaccines.

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