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Engineering Oct 20, 2009

Is Your Microrobot Up for the (NIST) Challenge?

(Âé¶¹ÒùÔºOrg.com) -- The scientists and engineers who introduced the world to tiny robots demonstrating soccer skills are creating the next level of friendly competition designed to advance microrobotics -- the field devoted ...

Materials Science Sep 24, 2009

Smart memory foam made smarter

Researchers from Northwestern University and Boise State University have figured out how to produce a less expensive shape-shifting "memory" foam, which could lead to more widespread applications of the material, such as ...

Robotics Aug 28, 2009

Researchers Hope to Mass-Produce Tiny Robots

(Âé¶¹ÒùÔºOrg.com) -- Tiny robots the size of a flea could one day be mass-produced, churned out in swarms and programmed for a variety of applications, such as surveillance, micromanufacturing, medicine, cleaning, and more. In ...

Nanophysics Aug 17, 2009

Tiny robots get a grip on nanotubes

(Âé¶¹ÒùÔºOrg.com) -- How do you handle the tiny components needed for constructing nanoscale devices? A European consortium has built two microrobotic demonstrators that can automatically pick up and install carbon nanotubes ...

General Âé¶¹ÒùÔºics Apr 9, 2009

The Âé¶¹ÒùÔºics of Pizza Tossing

(Âé¶¹ÒùÔºOrg.com) -- As dough flies through the air, transforming from a ball into a disk in the chef’s experienced hands, pizza tossing can definitely be thought of as an art. But, as a recent study shows, pizza tossing is ...

Engineering Jun 2, 2008

Microrobots dance on something smaller than a pin's head

Microscopic robots crafted to maneuver separately without any obvious guidance are now assembling into self-organized structures after years of continuing research led by a Duke University computer scientist.

Engineering May 21, 2008

Mechanical locomotion principles from jumping insects applied to microrobots

Researchers from the Laboratory of Intelligent Systems at EPFL are unveiling a novel, grasshopper-inspired jumping robot at the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation May 21 in Pasadena, California.

Sep 12, 2007

Microbiotic technology developed for microinjection of zebrafish embryos

Funded by an NSERC Idea to Innovations grant and an Ontario Early Researcher Award, Prof. Yu Sun’s group, the Advanced Micro and Nanosystems Laboratory at the University of Toronto recently developed a microrobotic technology ...

Condensed Matter Feb 12, 2007

Researchers Create Tiny, Self-Propelled Devices

North Carolina State University scientists have figured out a method to supply microscopic devices with enough energy to not only allow them to propel themselves through liquid – a difficult function in its own right – ...

Sep 14, 2005

Researchers build world's smallest mobile robot

In a world where "supersize" has entered the lexicon, there are some things getting smaller, like cell phones and laptops. Dartmouth researchers have contributed to the miniaturizing trend by creating the world's smallest ...

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