Space Exploration
Jun 10, 2021
Venus hotter than ever: 3rd new robotic explorer on horizon
Venus is hotter than ever, with a third new robotic explorer on the horizon.
Search results for robotics
Bio & Medicine
Jun 9, 2021
Bacteria-sized robots take on microplastics and win by breaking them down
Small pieces of plastic are everywhere, stretching from urban environments to pristine wilderness. Left to their own devices, it can take hundreds of years for them to degrade completely. Catalysts activated by sunlight could ...
Space Exploration
Jun 3, 2021
NASA picks Venus as hot spot for two new robotic missions
NASA is returning to sizzling Venus, our closest yet perhaps most overlooked neighbor, after decades of exploring other worlds.
Materials Science
Jun 2, 2021
'Giant flexoelectricity' breakthrough in soft elastomers paves way for improved robots and self-powered pacemakers
Researchers have demonstrated "giant flexoelectricity" in soft elastomers that could improve robot movement range and make self-powered pacemakers a real possibility. In a paper published this month in the Proceedings of ...
Earth Sciences
May 26, 2021
Trials of new robot submarines begin in Scotland to reduce cost and environmental impact of future ocean missions
Engineers from the National Oceanography Centre (NOC) are set to trial new, state-of-the-art robot submarines in Loch Ness to pave the way for safer and more cost-efficient offshore operations. The latest phase of Oceanids—a ...
Space Exploration
May 21, 2021
Swarms of robots could dig underground cities on Mars
Underground habitats have recently become a focal point of off-planet colonization efforts. Protection from micrometeorites, radiation and other potential hazards makes underground sites desirable compared to surface dwellings. ...
Polymers
May 6, 2021
Smart magnetic soft materials to develop artificial muscles and therapeutic robots
Developing a new generation of artificial muscles and soft nanorobots for drug delivery are some of the long-term goals of 4D-BIOMAP, an ERC research project being undertaken by the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M).This ...
Agriculture
Apr 29, 2021
Vision for ultra-precision ag: Machine learning, plant sensing, robots tending crops
A gardener hoping for a crop of the juiciest summer tomatoes might tend to each and every plant in a plot. But a farmer working to feed the world?
Molecular & Computational biology
Apr 29, 2021
DNA-inspired 'supercoiling' fibers could make powerful artificial muscles for robots
The double helix of DNA is one of the most iconic symbols in science. By imitating the structure of this complex genetic molecule we have found a way to make artificial muscle fibers far more powerful than those found in ...
Ecology
Apr 27, 2021
Product features of robotic lawn mowers determine danger to hedgehogs
Robotic lawn mowers running at night have, by some, been declared a great threat to the population of European hedgehogs. Now a recently published study conducted by Dr. Sophie Lund Rasmussen, known as Dr. Hedgehog, and colleagues ...
