A consortium made up of European research institutions and industrial partners is developing mobile, autonomously operating robots
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Piezoelectric devices could give robots a sense of touch
Researchers have fabricated arrays of piezotronic transistors capable of converting mechanical motion directly into electronic controlling signals.
Swimming Microbots: Self-propelling Catalytic Micromotors Follow a pH Gradient
Scientists have developed autonomous catalytic microrobots that swim towards a specified target with a speed of 20 body length per second.
The Betentacled One: Soft Robots that Move in Three Dimensions
Soft robotic tentacles that can be manipulated using pressurization have been developed by the Whitesides group at Harvard.
Dual imaging MRI contrast agents using robotic synthesis
Robotic synthesis rapid screening and characterisation techniques used to development new materials for MRI.
Food additive enables printed materials for soft robotics
University of Wollogong researchers have printed materials which can actuate and strain gauge.
Artificial fingertips: Silicon for robot prosthetics
Elastomer-based skin has been developed for biomimetic artificial fingertip sensors.
Flexible Paper Robots
Researchers have developed inexpensive robots that can stretch, bend and twist under control, and lift objects 120 times their own weight.
New fuel cell is equipped with gills for autonomous underwater vehicles
A fish-inspired fuel cell concept could provide a cost-effective alternative to batteries in underwater vehicles.
Artificial muscle could help facial paralysis sufferers blink again
A soft implant could avoid multiple surgeries and long waiting times while improving the living conditions of facial paralysis sufferers.
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