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Robotics Jun 8, 2011

NIST contests in China put next-gen robot technologies to the test

(Âé¶¹ÒùÔºOrg.com) -- Robotic automation, microrobotics and robotic perception and recognition all advanced a few steps closer to their future applications in manufacturing, health care and other areas during the week of May 9-13, ...

Engineering Mar 25, 2011

Innovative microactuators: Compact 3.5 mm cubic rotary-linear piezoelectric actuator

(Âé¶¹ÒùÔºOrg.com) -- Microactuators are critical components for industrial applications such as MEMS, micro-medical devices, and microrobotics. However, the fabrication of increasingly sophisticated, millimeter sized microactuators ...

Engineering Sep 6, 2010

Cracking flight's mysteries: It's a bird, it's a plane, it's a microrobot

(Âé¶¹ÒùÔºOrg.com) -- Engineers at Harvard University have created a millionth-scale automobile differential to govern the flight of minuscule aerial robots that could someday be used to probe environmental hazards, forest fires, ...

Engineering Sep 2, 2010

Microrobots: Miniature auto differential helps tiny aerial robots stay aloft

Engineers at Harvard University have created a millionth-scale automobile differential to govern the flight of minuscule aerial robots that could someday be used to probe environmental hazards, forest fires, and other places ...

Robotics Jul 2, 2010

Thermal-powered, insect-like robot crawls into microrobot contenders' ring

Robotic cars attracted attention last decade with a 100-mile driverless race across the desert competing for a $1 million prize put up by the U.S. government.

Engineering Jun 15, 2010

Texas Tech, U of Utah win Sandia microdevice competition

The world's smallest chess board — about the diameter of four human hairs — and a pea-sized microbarbershop were winners in this year's design contest for, respectively, novel and educational microelectromechanical systems ...

Engineering May 28, 2010

Robots big and small showcase their skills at NIST Alaskan events (w/ Video)

Make room, Bender, Rosie and R2D2! Your newest mechanical colleagues are a few steps closer to reality, thanks to lessons learned during two robotics events hosted by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) ...

Engineering May 22, 2010

Stevens team places third in 2010 IEEE/NIST Mobile Microrobotics Challenge

A team from Stevens Institute of Technology, consisting of undergraduate student Sean Lyttle, along with graduate students: Wuming Jing, Xi Chen, and Zhenbo Fu and led by Professors David Cappelleri, Jan Nazalewicz and Yong ...

Cell & Microbiology Mar 19, 2010

A molecular brake for the bacterial flagellar nano-motor

Researchers at the University of Basel, Switzerland, have discovered that Escherichia coli bacteria harness a sophisticated chemosensory and signal transduction machinery that allows them to accurately control motor rotation, ...

Engineering Jan 27, 2010

Insectlike 'microids' might walk, run, work in colonies

(Âé¶¹ÒùÔºOrg.com) -- A new approach in the design of miniature, insectlike robots could lead to "microids" the size of ants that move their tiny legs and mandibles using solid-state "muscles."

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