Substituting soap-bubble robots for pollinating insects.
Cell reveals a potential replacement for pollinators – the vital insects who keep plants from almonds to corn to quinoa reproducing – by using flying […]
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Pigeonbot flies on wings that change shape.
Science News introduces us to a robot that flies on wings that can change shape just like a real bird’s: Now, using new insights into […]
Paralyzed man moves, thanks to mind-controlled exoskeleton.
BBC News has the story (told in many photos) of Thibault, a man who has been able to move all four limbs with a robot […]
Robot fish has battery blood.
Nature powers up with a mechanical fish that runs off a circulating liquid power source: The roughly 40-centimetre soft robot doesn’t have solid batteries — […]
Science Art: Nitrogen with Secret Binary Robot (Brain Freeze Ice Cream Wallpaper Detail), editor’s own work.
Click to embiggen It’s hot here. Spent all day at a swim meet. Non-competitors not allowed in pool. There’s a chain now that makes ice […]
Gel robotics for wearable muscles.
Science Daily reveals a breakthrough in wearable electronics, with flexible circuits that can move like muscle fibers and even help do your walking: A collaborative […]
Roomba inventor creates an anti-invasive-fish robot.
Fast Company unveils the new robots unleashed by Colin Angle, the man behind the Roomba, after he was challenged by a dive instructor in Bermuda. […]
Soft exosuit boosts runners’ performance
Science Daily gets muscle augmentation away from the whole “real-life Iron Man” thing with news of what looks like a pair of robotic shorts… a […]
10-4, bot buddy. Robot truckers join the convoy….
Popular Science brings a 1970s science-fiction dream one step closer to reality with news that Uber Freight is ready to put robot truckers on the […]
Insect biobots are ready to respond to disasters.
Science Daily reports on the cybernetic insects that can be used alongside drones to quickly map out unfamiliar terrain: “The idea would be to release […]
A robot truck just drove beer between cities.
The Verge reports on Uber’s first real-live self-driving truck shipment, hauling Budweiser from Loveland, Colorado, to Colorado Springs: The truck — a Volvo big rig […]
SONG: Cells, Sensors, Silicon
SONG: “Cells, Sensors, Silicon”. [Download] ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: “This Swimming Stingray Robot Is Powered by Real, Living Rat Cells,” Popular Mechanics, 7 July 2016, as […]
Living robot: mechanical stingray swims with rat-cell muscles.
Popular Mechanics describes the rat-cell engine that powers this stingray robot: “Roughly speaking, we made this thing with a pinch of rat cardiac cells, a […]
You swallow this pork origami robot, see… no, really.
Washington Post reports on a swallowable, unfolding robot for retrieving the little batteries that little kids swallow: Across the United States, a child swallows a […]
Disney builds a wall-driving robot.
A bit fancier than the Hall of the Presidents. New Scientist reports on a wheeled robot that uses fans to drive up walls: The eminently […]