A robot powered only by light completed 188 continuous jumps without electronics, carrying 1,700 times its weight using material response alone.
You probably picture robots as clodhoppers: ponderous, clunky, even doddery droids that need caffeine, badly. But robots are on the brink of making giant strides. Just ask Columbia University ...
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Light-powered soft robot jumps 188 times without motor, carries 1,700x its weight
An insect-scale robot that jumps using only light has completed 188 continuous leaps without ...
The machines are built from autonomous modules that can be snapped together in a variety of forms ...
Inside a lab in Boston University’s College of Engineering, a robot arm drops small, plastic objects into a box placed perfectly on the floor to catch them as they fall. One by one, these tiny ...
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These Robots That “Eat” Each Other to Survive Could Evolve Into Machines and Conquer Our Planet
In a world where robotics are becoming an integral part of everyday life, we’re starting to see innovations that are as surprising as they are fascinating. Recently, researchers from Columbia ...
A robot made of Lego can quickly perform an important step for creating machines made of DNA. “This started as a final project in an undergraduate lab course,” says Rizal Hariadi at Arizona State ...
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