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Electrostatic brakes make bendy robot arms a lot more efficient

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Robotic limbs controlled by electrostatic brakes are more efficient

Robotic limbs that are controlled by electrostatic brakes rather than many motors could lead to a new generation of lightweight robots

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Robot limbs

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Electrostatic brakes make bendy robot arms a lot more efficient

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Robotic fingertip has human-like sense of touch

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Robotic fingertip has human-like sense of touch

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Origami-inspired robot can deliver drugs at the site they are needed

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Short video demonstrating the robot opening a door. (screengrab)

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Robot learns to open doors by splitting the task into three easy steps

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Overview of the dressing pipeline. Following the CNA Practice Test guidance, we used a professional training manikin to simulate a person who has completely lost upper limb movement functionality and designed the pipeline as the following stages: stage A, the robot would navigate to the rail and grasp a hospital gown that is naturally hung on a rail; stage B, the robot would fully unfold the garment in the air; stage C, the robot would navigate around the hospital bed and lift up and dress the user?s both arms; stage D, the final operation spreads the gown to cover the upper body.

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Robotic nurse can dress a mannequin in a hospital gown

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The magnetic slime that could retrieve accidentally swallowed objects

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The magnetic slime that could retrieve accidentally swallowed objects

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Robot peeling a banana

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Finally, a robot that can peel a banana without smushing it to bits

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BirdBot

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'BirdBot' has robotic legs more efficient than more complex devices

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BirdBot's leg mechanics are automatically water proof; all motors are located in the robot's trunk, far away from its feet. Here the mechanics that produce joint torques, tendon forces, and ground contact are water-proof. Theoretically, BirdBot could walk through water (possible future work).

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Watch emu-inspired robot legs that use less energy to run

Robotic legs that mimic flightless running birds like emus and use just two motors per leg can run more efficiently than more complex devices

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Collision-dodging drones can navigate tight spaces without crashing

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Robotic ships could inspect underwater pipelines without a crew

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Meet the machines that that can evolve all by themselves

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Meet the robots that can reproduce, learn and evolve all by themselves

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