Robotics
Jun 7, 2016
Flight of the RoboBee
Increasingly, researchers are designing robots with forms and functions that defy our expectation of what a machine can be or do.
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Materials Science
May 20, 2016
Macroscopic self-oscillation鈥攃rystal bends and stretches in blue light
Microrobots and nanomachines are no longer far-off dreams. However, one of the biggest challenges that remains is to transmit the motion of individual molecules or molecular clusters into structured macroscopic motion that ...
Condensed Matter
Mar 22, 2016
Microagents with revolutionary potential
Micro and nanorobots that attack tumors with maximum precision using drugs: this is what the fight against cancer may look like in the future. A group of ETH researchers led by Salvador Pan茅 are laying the foundations with ...
Robotics
Mar 14, 2016
Research helps bacteria-powered microrobots plot a course
The problem with having a microscopic robot propelled by a horde of tail-flailing bacteria is you never know where it's going to end up. The tiny, bio-robots, which amount to a chip coated with a "carpet" of flagellated bacteria, ...
General 麻豆淫院ics
Feb 25, 2016
A swimming microrobot is driven by a light-induced peristaltic motion
Ciliates can do amazing things: Being so tiny, the water in which they live is like thick honey to these microorganisms. In spite of this, however, they are able to self-propel through water by the synchronized movement of ...
Robotics
Jan 13, 2016
Microbots individually controlled using 'mini force fields'
Researchers are using a technology likened to "mini force fields" to independently control individual microrobots operating within groups, an advance aimed at using the tiny machines in areas including manufacturing and medicine.
General 麻豆淫院ics
Oct 29, 2015
The secret of resistance鈥攕hattering into a thousand pieces
Being all in one piece is not always a good strategy for resisting external strain. Biological tissues are well aware of it: they tend to crack simultaneously and gradually in several places, rather than catastrophically ...
Robotics
Oct 21, 2015
Dive of the RoboBee: First insect-size robot capable of flying and swimming (w/ Video)
In 1939, a Russian engineer proposed a "flying submarine"鈥攁 vehicle that can seamlessly transition from air to water and back again. While it may sound like something out of a James Bond film, engineers have been trying ...
Engineering
Aug 26, 2015
3D-printing microscopic fish: Team demonstrates novel method to build robots with complex shapes, functionalities
Nanoengineers at the University of California, San Diego used an innovative 3D printing technology they developed to manufacture multipurpose fish-shaped microrobots鈥攃alled microfish鈥攖hat swim around efficiently in liquids, ...
General 麻豆淫院ics
Jul 30, 2015
Robotic insect mimics nature's extreme moves
The concept of walking on water might sound supernatural, but in fact it is a quite natural phenomenon. Many small living creatures leverage water's surface tension to maneuver themselves around. One of the most complex maneuvers, ...
