Location: Cambridge, United States
Borrowing from Mother Nature, a team of MIT researchers has built a school of
swimming robo-fish that slip through the water just as gracefully as the real
thing, if not quite as fast.
Mechanical engineers Kamal Youcef-Toumi and Pablo...
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Location: Cambridge, United States
Folding paper into shapes such as a crane or a butterfly is challenging
enough for most people. Now imagine trying to fold something that's about a
hundred times thinner than a human hair and then putting it to use as an
electronic device....
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Location: California, United States
Abstract :
As robots designed to operate underwater become more common, it is useful to look at ways to make them more efficient. Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUVs) carry their power source with them, so improving the efficiency of the...
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Location: Clausthal, Germany
Since 1970, scientists have been working with “optical tweezers” - lasers
that move microscopic amounts of matter using forces originating from the light
matter interaction. Now, for the first time, researchers have demonstrated...
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Location: National Institute of Standards and Technology, United States
Guest researcher John Jendzurski prepares the NIST electromagnetic phantom for passage through the walk-through metal detector behind it. The carbon-polymer blocks of the phantom are arranged in a form that simulates the mass and height of the...
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Location: University of California, Santa Barbara, United States
An international team of astronomers has found 10 new “extra
solar” planets, planets that orbit stars other than our sun. The team used a
system of robotic cameras that yield a great deal of information about these
other...
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Location: University of Michigan, United States
A wireless, nano-scale voltmeter developed at the University
of Michigan is overturning conventional wisdom about the physical
environment inside cells. It may someday help researchers tackle such tricky...
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Location: University of California, Berkeley, United States
Bioengineers at the University of
California, Berkeley, have discovered a technique that for the first time
enables the detection of biomolecules' dynamic reactions in a single living
cell.
By...
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Location: Fraunhofer Techologie-Entwicklungsgruppe, Germany
Carbon
nanotubes possess extraordinary mechanical, physical and chemical properties
including actuation behaviour on both nano and...
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Location: Delft University of Technology, Netherlands
TU
Delft will demonstrate how improved control techniques can reduce the risk
of aircraft crashes. The demonstration involves reconstructing...
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Location: Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), United States
A tiny "electronic nose" that MIT
researchers have engineered with a novel inkjet printing method could be used to
detect hazards including carbon monoxide, harmful industrial solvents and
explosives. ...
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Location: Tadokoro Laboratory,Tohoku University, Japan
Overview
Stuck or tangled cables are large issue for scope cameras and wired robots when
they are inserted into a narrow space. Proposed new actuation mechanism realizes
active or semi-active mobility for flexible long cables. By...
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Location: Box 1910 , Brown University , Providence, RI 02912, United States
Using Nintendo Wii remotes and a ball, members of the
Brown Robotics Group are "teaching"
robotic dogs to play soccer. The robots learn behavioral patterns that they will
eventually be able to...
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Location: 5000 Forbes Ave , 315 Scaife Hall , Pittsburgh, PA 15213-3890, United States
Robots come in all shapes and sizes — but one that looks like a spider and
walks on water? That's exactly what Carnegie Mellon researchers have developed
in the university's
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Location: 5000 Forbes Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, United States
Researchers in the Robotics Institute of Carnegie Mellon University's School
of Computer Science are building a robotic prospector for NASA that can creep
over rocky slopes and then anchor itself as a...
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Location: Suite 5K39, Washington, DC 20546-0001, United States
Launch and flight teams are in final preparations for the planned Sept. 27
liftoff from Pad 17-B at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla., of
NASA's Dawn
mission. The Dawn spacecraft will venture into...
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Location: 77 Massachusetts avenue , Cambridge, Ma 02139-4307, United States
Researchers in the MIT Media Lab's
Biomechatronics Group
have created a device to lighten the burden for soldiers and others who carry
heavy packs and equipment.
Their...
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Location: 3, Research Link, Singapore 117602, Singapore
The areas of focus for this cluster are non-silicon functional and structural
materials, techniques for micro and nano fabrication, materials integration –
both surfaces and interfaces, and process integration issues.
Microelectromechanical...
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Location: Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory,The Stata Center, Building 32 - 32 Vassar Street - Cambridge,, United States
Robots that manipulate everyday tools in
unstructured, human settings could more easily work with people and perform
tasks that are important to people. Task demonstration could serve as an
intuitive way for people to program robots to...
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