Sentences with phrase «soft robot»

In order to design a soft robot that could both walk and stretch itself through a centimeter gap under a door, Whitesides looked outside the human tribe for biological inspiration.

Shantae: Half - Genie Hero is more of a soft robot rabbit reboot than a direct follow up to Pirate's Curse.

For interaction designers at MIT, it means a shape - shifting soft robot that switches from phone, to watch, to flashlight, to charging cable.

It will provide researchers with a level of detail not typically found in academic research papers, including 3D models, bills of materials, raw experimental data, multimedia step - by - step tutorials and case studies of various soft robot designs, researchers said.

Particular themes include: Biomimetic robotics Biohybrid systems including biological - machine interfaces Neuromimetic systems Soft robot system Active sensing in vision and touch Social robotics Biomimetics of plants A list of accepted papers and extended abstracts can be found HERE.

Los Angeles, CA (Scicasts)-- UCLA bioengineering professor Ali Khademhosseini has led the development of a tissue - based soft robot that mimics the biomechanics of a stingray.

Researchers are already working on a soft robot designed to swim through the icy oceans of Europa.

The soft robot takes after the human heart.

«The chains allow us to manipulate the polymer remotely as a soft robot by controlling a magnetic field that affects the chains of magnetic particles», says Joe Tracy, an associate professor of Material Science and Engineering from the North Carolina University.

UCLA bioengineering professor Ali Khademhosseini has led the development of a tissue - based soft robot that mimics the biomechanics of a stingray.

Researchers led by a University of Houston engineer have reported a new class of soft robot, composed of ultrathin sensing, actuating electronics and temperature - sensitive...

«Stingray soft robot could lead to bio-inspired robotics: Developing soft biobots.»

Plus, Nick Bartlett discusses the challenges of building a jumping soft robot.

Now, a team of researchers from the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) has developed a soft robot that uses those same principles of locomotion to crawl without any rigid components.

It will provide researchers with a level of detail not typically found in academic research papers, including 3D models, bills of materials, raw experimental data, multimedia step - by - step tutorials, and case studies of various soft robot designs.

This soft robot really can walk the walk, as well as being able to roll, jump and swim.

MAD SKILLS Researchers put a new extension - focused soft robot to the test in the lab.

A new soft robot takes inspiration from natural growers.

Researchers led by a University of Houston engineer have reported a new class of soft robot, composed of ultrathin sensing, actuating electronics and temperature - sensitive artificial muscle that can adapt to the environment and crawl, similar to the movement of an inchworm or caterpillar.

The prototype adaptive soft robot includes a liquid crystal elastomer, doped with carbon black nanoparticles to enhance thermal conductivity, as the artificial muscle, combined with ultrathin mesh shaped stretchable thermal actuators and silicon - based light sensors.

This is the first soft robot to roam free, unfettered by rigid robotic controls and power sources.

«Natural scale caterpillar soft robot is powered and controlled with light.»

The 15 - millimeter long soft robot harvests energy from green light and is controlled by spatially modulated laser beam.

A new prototype soft robot takes inspiration from plants by growing to explore its environment.

A soft robot fish from China's Zhejiang University swims by ditching the usual rigid motors and propellers for an artificial muscle which flexes.

Empire Robotics, one of the first soft robot gripper companies, closed last year.

For now, much of the commercial action for softer robots is in logistics, replacing production - line jobs that can't yet be handled by hard robots.

Hemma Philamore says her team is talking to companies and environmental organizations about using its soft robots to decontaminate polluted waterways and monitor industrial infrastructure.

«This is an area robots traditionally can't do, but where (soft robots) are on the cusp of being able to,» said Wrench.

Soft robots, made of a material that allows them to switch between hard and soft states so as to squeeze through small spaces, have the potential to assist with space explorations, break ground in the way surgeries are performed and complete certain rescue missions.

To meet the requirements of these varying situations, developers have designed new models, such as soft robots and software robots.

PHOENIX — Soft robots really get around.

- Designing soft robots calls for a completely new paradigm in their mechanics, power supply and control.

Up to date, attempts to create soft robots were limited to larger scale (typically tens of centimeters), mainly due to difficulties in power management and remote control.

Such soft, flexible battery - like devices, described online December 13 in Nature, could power soft robots or next - gen wearable and implantable tech.

And whereas other soft robots have had at least a few hard parts, such as batteries or wires, the octobot uses a small reservoir of hydrogen peroxide as fuel.

Rutgers engineers have invented a «4D printing» method for a smart gel that could lead to the development of «living» structures in human organs and tissues, soft robots and targeted drug delivery.

These soft robots, made of soft artificial muscle and ultrathin deformable sensors and actuators, have significant advantages over the traditional rigid robots used for automation and other physical tasks.

Turing's model could help grow soft robots with certain patterns and shapes.

A team of California researchers has developed a robotic gripper that combines the adhesive properties of gecko toes and the adaptability of air - powered soft robots to grasp a much wider variety of objects than the state of the art.

«These all - terrain soft robots could one day travel across difficult environments for exploration, inspection, monitoring and search and rescue missions or perform complex, laparoscopic medical procedures.»

«Instantaneous motion for new soft robots: Researchers harness unstable responses to build new soft actuators.»

If harnessed, these instabilities would allow soft robots to move quickly without needing to carry or be tethered to a fluid supply.

«By putting these self - assembling chains into soft robots, we are able to have them perform more complex functions while still retaining relatively simple designs,» says Joe Tracy, an associate professor of materials science and engineering at North Carolina State University and corresponding author of a paper on the work.

«Controlling soft robots using magnetic fields.»

Using this technique, the researchers have created three kinds of soft robots.

A team of engineering researchers has made a fundamental advance in controlling so - called soft robots, using magnetic fields to remotely manipulate microparticle chains embedded in soft robotic devices.

Or these kinds of films could also be used to make color - changing skins for soft robots, Shang says.

Now, researchers at the Wyss Institute at Harvard University and MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) have created origami - inspired artificial muscles that add strength to soft robots, allowing them to lift objects that are up to 1,000 times their own weight using only air or water pressure.

«Artificial muscles give soft robots superpowers: Origami - inspired muscles are both soft and strong, and can be made for less than $ 1.»