MIT Stumbles on a Way to Print Flexible Coatings Made of Micromachines
Gold Film Embedded In A Plastic Sheet Corinne Packard and Apoorva Murarka, via MITMicroelectromechanical devices (MEMS) have the potential to enable a wide range of nanomachines. Unfortunately, MEMS...
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Shape-Memory Alloy Actuator Stretch me tiny Jason Dorfman/CSAIL Shape-memory alloys that change shape when heated could become tiny mechanical muscles for electronic devices. New mechanical devices...
View ArticleVideo: German Researchers Smash Robot Arm With a Baseball Bat
Come On, Human, I Can Take It DLR The robotics engineers at DLR, the German Aerospace Center, have a history of violent behavior with their mechanical creations — earlier this year, we saw them smash...
View ArticleSelf-Contained Soft Robot Powered By On-Board Battery
Soft Robot, Rolling Robot This rolling robot is completely self-contained, unlike its tethered predecessors. via YouTube Soft robots would be useful for a variety of things — they could grip objects...
View ArticleMIT Stumbles on a Way to Print Flexible Coatings Made of Micromachines
Microelectromechanical devices (MEMS) have the potential to enable a wide range of nanomachines. Unfortunately, MEMS suffer from the critical drawbacks of an expensive…
View ArticleMIT's Tiny Mechanical Muscles Could Power Tomorrow's Robotic Gizmos
Shape-memory alloys that change shape when heated could become tiny mechanical muscles for electronic devices. New mechanical devices based on the alloys produce three to six…
View ArticleVideo: German Researchers Smash Robot Arm With a Baseball Bat
The robotics engineers at DLR, the German Aerospace Center, have a history of violent behavior with their mechanical creations — earlier this year, we saw them smash a…
View ArticleSelf-Contained Soft Robot Powered By On-Board Battery
Soft robots would be useful for a variety of things — they could grip objects with precision and sensitivity, and they could roll along more quietly than their counterparts…
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