An insect-inspired technology helps break a 25-year-old paradigm in robotics.
Intelligent Systems and Robotics
Asynchronous insect flight inspires artificial flyers
An asynchronous and self-adaptive flyer can adjust the frequency and amplitude of its wings under specific external disturbances.
A robot in chameleon skin uses nature’s active camouflage
Using advanced sensors and a thermally responsive skin, a new robotic chameleon demonstrates mastery over color.
Responsive skin makes better robot helpers
An electronic skin helps facilitate natural interactions between robots and humans.
Swarm of autonomous tiny drones to localize gas leaks
Using modified “CrazyFlie” drones, researchers develop a strategy for finding gas leaks more efficiently and without risk to human lives.
Smart textiles that teach
A fabric-based haptic sleeve controls drone flight through arm movement and helps train users by applying corrective forces to body joints.
Rice-sized robots maneuvered with magnetic fields
Researchers create swimming, moving, gripping miniature robots.
A robot that smiles back
Researchers teach robots to make appropriate reactive human facial expressions, an ability that could build trust between humans and their robotic co-workers and care-givers.
Invisible codes help robots make sense of their environment
A new material helps robots analyze and navigate their environments by scanning codes invisible to the human eye.
Robots will save the world from asteroids. Eventually.
Asteroids are always pelting Earth, but what happens if the big one comes along? The European Space Agency’s new asteroid telescope is coming to the rescue.
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