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Technology & Society: RF & Microwave Electronics
SprayBox can target individual weeds and crops at a 20-per-second rate and then spray them at a millimeter’s accuracy.
5 Ws: Robotics, Automation & Control
A team of researchers at Cornell Engineering has developed a soft robot that can detect when and where it was damaged — and then heal itself on the spot.
Special Reports: Photonics/Optics
Space Technology - January 2023
Read about robot construction workers on the moon, the first commercial space station, what's next for the James Webb Space Telescope, and much more in this compendium of recent articles from the editors of Tech...Briefs: Robotics, Automation & Control
Researchers have been able to successfully teach micro-robots how to swim via deep reinforcement learning, marking a substantial leap in the progression of micro-swimming capability.
Briefs: Software
The software can be integrated with existing hardware to aid people using robotic prosthetics or exoskeletons.
Briefs: Robotics, Automation & Control
In-space and planetary surface assembly for human exploration is a challenging domain that encompasses various technological thrusts to support human missions.
Briefs: Robotics, Automation & Control
The robots will be challenged to carry out work too dangerous for humans.
Briefs: Robotics, Automation & Control
The model allows robots to ask clarifying questions to soldiers.
Quiz: Robotics, Automation & Control
Factories are becoming more and more automated and integrated. How much do you know about what factory automation actually is? Take this quiz to find out.
INSIDER: Sensors/Data Acquisition
Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University's School of Computer Science and the University of California, Berkeley, have designed a robotic system that enables a low-cost and relatively small legged...
INSIDER: Software
Hummingbirds occupy a unique place in nature: They fly like insects but have the musculoskeletal system of birds. According to Bo Cheng, Associate Professor in...
Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
NASA is developing the next generation of spacesuits for future missions.
Briefs: Imaging
Researchers at University of Central Florida have developed an artificial intelligence device that mimics the retina of the eye.
Briefs: Materials
Instead of adding soft materials to a rigid robot body, researchers have taken a soft body and added rigid features to key components.
Products: Robotics, Automation & Control
The new IRB 1010 robot from ABB (Cary, NC) offers electronics manufacturers the opportunity to increase their production of small wearable devices.
Application Briefs: Robotics, Automation & Control
A developer needs confidence that the compiler will not introduce errors into the design.
Application Briefs: Robotics, Automation & Control
Programming a robot for small series production activities with great diversity involves many trajectories, which is time-consuming.
Briefs: Design
Researchers designed a new type of soft robotic gripper that uses a collection of thin tentacles to entangle and ensnare objects.
Briefs: Medical
A team has installed electronic “brains” on solar-powered robots that are 100 to 250 micrometers in size so that they can walk autonomously.
Briefs: Unmanned Systems
The new system learns directly from visual inputs to let a robot with a two-fingered gripper see, simulate, and shape doughy objects.
Briefs: Robotics, Automation & Control
The design goal is to provide exceptional RF signal range and stability, while also reducing power consumption, in a miniaturized package.
Briefs: Motion Control
A new robotic system fuses visual information and radio-frequency signals to efficiently find hidden items buried under a pile of objects.
Briefs: Materials
Researchers have developed a shape-shifting material that can take and hold any possible shape.
INSIDER: Physical Sciences
Early in the pandemic, Víctor Ortega-Jiménez was exploring creeks near his home and observing springtails. The organisms are the most abundant non-insect hexapods on earth, and...
INSIDER: Manufacturing & Prototyping
The Korea Institute of Machinery and Materials (KIMM) announced that it has developed a gripper capable of all gripping movements, inspired by elephant trunks. It mimics how elephants...
INSIDER: Design
If you’ve ever played the claw game at an arcade, you know how hard it is to grab and hold onto objects using robotic grippers. Imagine how much more nerve-wracking that game would be if,...
INSIDER: Robotics, Automation & Control
The unassuming Pacific mole crab, Emerita analoga, is about to make some waves. UC Berkeley researchers have debuted a unique robot inspired by this burrowing crustacean that may someday help evaluate the soil...
Application Briefs: Robotics, Automation & Control
To open the Moon to continuous multi-year human and robotic operation, Astrobotic is developing LunaGrid™ — a commercial power system for the surface of the Moon.
Top Stories
Blog: Lighting
A Stretchable OLED that Can Maintain Most of Its Luminescence
News: Energy
INSIDER: Energy
Advancing All-Solid-State Batteries
Blog: Energy
My Opinion: We Need More Power Soon — Is Nuclear the Answer?
Blog: Robotics, Automation & Control
Aerial Microrobots That Can Match a Bumblebee's Speed
Blog: Communications
Microscopic Swimming Machines that Can Sense, Respond to Surroundings
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