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Next-generation cockroach-inspired robot is small but mighty

Robotics News - Robot News, Robotics, Robots, Robotics Sciences Jun 3, 2020 | 16:37 pm

This itsy-bitsy robot can't climb up the waterspout yet but it can run, jump, carry heavy payloads and turn on a dime. Dubbed HAMR-JR, this microrobot developed by researchers at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) and the Harvard Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering, is a half-scale version of the cockroach-inspired Harvard Ambulatory Microrobot or HAMR.

An origami-based robotic structure inspired by ladybird wings

Robotics News - Robot News, Robotics, Robots, Robotics Sciences Jun 3, 2020 | 14:01 pm

Researchers at Seoul National University have recently developed a compact and lightweight origami structure inspired by ladybird beetles. In a paper published in Science Robotics they show how this structure can be used to build a winged jump-gliding robot. Jump-gliding is a specific locomotion style that combines gliding and jumping movements.

What will it take for us to trust a robot?

Robotics News - Robot News, Robotics, Robots, Robotics Sciences Jun 3, 2020 | 11:37 am

A robotic vacuum cleaner is easy to trust. We really need a lot more confidence in a robot that might be performing vital surgery on our body.

A smarter way of building with mobile robots

Robotics News - Robot News, Robotics, Robots, Robotics Sciences Jun 2, 2020 | 15:12 pm

Researchers are working with a mobile robotic platform called Husky A200 that could be used for autonomous logistic tasks on construction sites. This mobile robot is one of many projects pursued by the Fraunhofer Italia Innovation Engineering Center to advance the cause of digitalization in construction and bridge the gap between robotics and the building industry. Researchers at this center based in Bolzano, Italy, are developing a software interface that will enable mobile robots to find their way around in[…]

Malaysian university moots robot graduation ceremonies to cut virus risk

Robotics News - Robot News, Robotics, Robots, Robotics Sciences Jun 2, 2020 | 11:27 am

A Malaysian university is considering using robots dressed in gowns and mortarboards to act as stand-ins at graduation ceremonies to prevent coronavirus infections—but students have blown a fuse at the idea.

Robot Gift Guide 2019

Automaton Nov 28, 2019 | 03:30 am

Over a dozen robots that we promise will make fantastic holiday gifts

Video Friday: Robotic Endoscope Travels Through the Colon

Automaton Nov 23, 2019 | 01:46 am

Your weekly selection of awesome robot videos

Caltech and JPL Firing Quadrotors Out of Cannons

Automaton Nov 20, 2019 | 16:50 pm

The fastest, safest, and most exciting way to launch a quadrotor may be ballistically

Bipedal Robot Cassie Cal Learns to Juggle

Automaton Nov 18, 2019 | 19:22 pm

Cassie may not have any arms to work with, but that doesn’t keep it from juggling a ball on its head