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News: Robotics, Automation & Control
Johns Hopkins University engineers have developed a pioneering prosthetic hand that can grip plush toys, water bottles, and other everyday objects like a human, carefully conforming and adjusting its grasp to avoid damaging or mishandling whatever it holds.
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Special Reports: Manufacturing & Prototyping
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Robotics & Motion Control - March 2025
From the operating room to the family farm to your next hotel stay, advances in robotics and automation are impacting a wide range of industries. Read all about it in this compendium of articles from the...

Special Reports: Photonics/Optics
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Medical Manufacturing & Outsourcing - March 2025
Researchers achieve near‐void‐free 3D printing…how new laser joining technology is improving implantable device reliability…tips and techniques for adhesive bonding of plastics. Read...

Articles: Robotics, Automation & Control
Accelerating progress in AI is redefining what is possible with industrial robotics, enhancing everything from robots’ ability to grip, pick and place as well as their ability to map and navigate through dynamic environments. Read on to learn more about what this means.
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Special Reports: Robotics, Automation & Control
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Medical Robotics - September 2024
This free report from the editors of Medical Design Briefs explores how advances in robotics and AI are improving surgery, patient care, treatment, and device manufacturing.

Podcasts: Medical
Exploring how robotics are enhancing precision and minimizing invasiveness of surgical procedures.
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INSIDER: Propulsion
Our muscles are nature’s perfect actuators — devices that turn energy into motion. For their size, muscle fibers are more powerful and precise than most synthetic actuators. They...
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Special Reports: Motion Control
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Robotics - March 2024
Read about the latest advances in robots for space exploration, healthcare, search & rescue, warehouse automation, and more in this compendium of recent articles from the editors of Tech Briefs, Medical Design Briefs,...

INSIDER: Medical
“Soft robots,” medical devices and implants, and next-generation drug delivery methods could soon be guided with magnetism — thanks to a metal-free magnetic gel...
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Special Reports: Materials
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Medical Manufacturing & Outsourcing - March 2024
Assembly technology for next-gen robot-assisted surgery…advancing medical device sustainability with new specialty thermoplastics…how to integrate IoT devices to improve safety in medical...

INSIDER: Medical
The lungs are one of the most difficult organs for physicians to navigate. They have a dense network of blood vessels, bronchi, and other critical anatomical structures that makes...
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INSIDER: Robotics, Automation & Control
People who received gentle electric currents on the back of their heads learned to maneuver a robotic surgery tool in virtual reality and then in a real setting...
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INSIDER: Robotics, Automation & Control
Engineers at Princeton University and Google have come up with a new way to teach robots to know when they don’t know. The technique involves quantifying the...
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Quiz: Robotics, Automation & Control
Surgical robots allow doctors to perform complex procedures with more precision, flexibility, and control than possible with traditional techniques. Surgical robots are also sometimes used in conventional open surgical procedures.
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Blog: Medical
Researchers have created smart, advanced materials that will be the building blocks for a future generation of soft medical microrobots.
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Blog: AR/AI
Researchers have demonstrated that their steerable robot can autonomously maneuver the intricacies of the lung, while avoiding important lung structures.
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Podcasts: Robotics, Automation & Control
AI can enhance healthcare delivery, improve patient outcomes, and enable personalized treatments.
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Special Reports: Materials
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Robotics - July 2023
Read about the latest advances in robots for space exploration, healthcare, manufacturing, and more in this compendium of recent articles from the editors of Tech Briefs, Medical Design Briefs, and Aerospace & Defense...

INSIDER: Sensors/Data Acquisition
Researchers from UCLA and the United States Army Research Laboratory have laid out a new approach for enhancing artificial intelligence-powered computer vision technologies by...
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Briefs: Robotics, Automation & Control
The new robot, developed by engineers at the University of Waterloo, uses ultraviolet (UV) light and magnetic force to move on any surface, even up walls and across ceilings.
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INSIDER: Medical
The soft robotic models are patient-specific and could help clinicians zero in on the best implant for an individual.
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Quiz: Robotics, Automation & Control
How much do you know about medical robots, a market expected to reach $22.89 billion by 2030? Find out with this quiz.
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Briefs: Energy
A team has installed electronic “brains” on solar-powered robots that are 100 to 250 micrometers in size so that they can walk autonomously.
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INSIDER: Robotics, Automation & Control
A collaborative effort has installed electronic “brains” on solar-powered robots that are 100 to 250 micrometers in size — smaller than an ant’s head — so that they can walk autonomously without...
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Quiz: Robotics, Automation & Control
How much do you know about humanoid robots?
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Special Reports: Wearables
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Medical Manufacturing & Outsourcing - August 2022
A novel ink that enables 3D printing of bone with living cells...advances in ultrasonic welding of plastics...additive manufacturing of self-powered wearable devices. Read these stories and more...

Briefs: Motion Control
MIT engineers have developed a telerobotic system to help surgeons quickly and remotely treat patients experiencing a stroke or aneurysm. With a modified joystick, surgeons in...
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Question of the Week: Robotics, Automation & Control
Are soft machines an important technology for the future?
Soft machines — a subcategory of robotics that uses deformable materials instead of rigid links — are an emerging technology commonly used in wearable robotics and biomimetics (e.g., prosthetic limbs).
INSIDER: Robotics, Automation & Control
MIT engineers have developed a telerobotic system to help surgeons quickly and remotely treat patients experiencing a stroke or aneurysm. With a modified joystick, surgeons...
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