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Researchers Develop Smallest, Most Dexterous Cockroach-Inspired Robot

HAMR-JR, a minuscule robot developed by researchers from the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) and the Harvard Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering, cannot climb up the waterspout.

4 Jun 2020

New Artificial Magnetic Cilia Could Find Applications in Microrobotics

Artificial cilia, or hair-like structures, developed by researchers from North Carolina State University and Elon University have the ability to bend into novel shapes when subjected to a magnetic field.

27 May 2020

New Microrobots Could Perform Distributed Sensing of Material Defects

A majority of the synthetic materials, such as those in battery electrodes, catalysts, and polymer membranes, tend to deteriorate with time since they lack intrinsic repair mechanisms.

11 Dec 2019

Intelligent Microrobots can be Reprogrammed to Carry Out Different Tasks

At the Paul Scherrer Institute PSI and ETH Zurich, scientists have created an innovative micromachine that is capable of carrying out a variety of actions.

7 Nov 2019

Resilient, Eight-Wing RoboBee Powered by Soft Artificial Muscles

A RoboBee rushing toward a wall or bumping into a glass box might have caused panic earlier among scientists at the Harvard Microrobotics Laboratory at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Science (SEAS).

5 Nov 2019

Control of Snake-Like Robots for High Mobility and Dexterity

Snake-like articulated mobile robots can enter narrow spaces and climb obstacles using their long and thin bodies, and are effective for inspection of narrow spaces and search-and-rescue operation on disaster sites.

13 Sep 2019

Study Demonstrates Fully Untethered Soft Robots in Liquid

In the past few years, soft robots have received a great deal of attention for their special characteristics when compared to conventional rigid robots.

5 Aug 2019

New Insect-Sized Robot Withstands the Weight of an Average Human

The sight of a scurrying bug can make individuals look away because they probably feel uneasy. Now, a novel insect-sized robot developed by scientists at the University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley), can skitter across the floor at almost the speed of a darting cockroach.

1 Aug 2019

New Millimeter-Scale Soft Snail Robot Driven by Liquid Crystal Elastomer Technology

Liquid crystal elastomer technology was used by researchers at the Faculty of Physics at the University of Warsaw, Poland to show the capability of a bio-inspired microrobot to imitate the adhesive locomotion of snails and slugs in natural scale.

1 Aug 2019

Microrobots Stimulated by Laser Beam May be Effective in Treating Tumors

Targeted medical treatment is a practice that is as old as medicine itself. A broken arm is placed in a cast. A Band-Aid is used to cover a skinned knee. Drops are put into itchy eyes.

25 Jul 2019