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Humans Have Form of ‘Remote Touch,’ Scientists Claim

Chen et al. carried out two studies: the first, a human study assessing fingertip sensitivity to tactile cues from buried objects; the second, a robotic experiment using a tactile-equipped robotic arm and a Long Short-Term Memory model to detect object presence. Image credit: Gemini AI.
Nov 10, 2025 by News Staff

Humans possess the ability to sense objects without direct contact, a sense that some animals have, according to new research. Chen et al. carried out two studies: the first, a human study assessing fingertip sensitivity to tactile cues from buried objects; the second, a robotic experiment using a tactile-equipped robotic arm and a Long Short-Term Memory model to detect object presence. Image credit: Gemini AI. Human touch is typically understood...

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A diffractive robot. Image credit: Smart et al., doi: 10.1126/science.adr2177.

Researchers Create Smallest Walking Robot Yet

Dec 4, 2024 by News Staff

A team of researchers at Cornell University has created a new class of magnetically controlled microscopic robots (microbots) that operate at the visible-light...

Schneiders et al. suggest it takes more than a carefully designed robot to care for your cat, the environment in which they operate is also vital, as well as human interaction. Image credit: Schneiders et al., doi: 10.1145/3613904.3642115.

Would You Trust Robot to Look After Your Cat?

May 14, 2024 by News Staff

Scientists from the University of Nottingham and artists from Blast Theory have created Cat Royale, a multispecies world centered around a bespoke enclosure...

MilliMobile is able to move across a variety of surfaces, including concrete and packed soil. Image credit: Mark Stone / University of Washington.

Researchers Create Autonomous Battery-Free Wireless Microrobot: MilliMobile

Sep 27, 2023 by News Staff

MilliMobile is a first of its kind battery-free autonomous robot capable of operating on harvested solar and radio frequency power. The MilliMobile prototype...

With four wings made out of carbon fiber and mylar as well as four light-weight actuators to control each wing, the Bee++ prototype is the first to fly stably in all directions. Image credit: Bena et al., doi: 10.1109/TRO.2022.3218260.

Newly-Developed Insect-Scale Robot Can Fly Fully in All Directions

May 24, 2023 by News Staff

A team of U.S. scientists has synthesized and implemented high-performance six-degree-of-freedom flight controllers for the Bee ++ , an insect-scale flying...

The climbing capabilities of living creatures such as geckos, tree frogs, and inchworms provide a promising platform for exploiting biomimetic soft climbing robots. Image credit: Sun et al., doi: 10.1016/j.xcrp.2022.101241.

GeiwBot: Gecko- and Inchworm-Inspired Robot Can Climb Walls and Ceilings

Feb 28, 2023 by News Staff

GeiwBot can climb on walls and ceilings of different textures including glass, polyimide, and aluminum; its climbing behavior is based on dynamic attachment...

The dandelion-inspired, wind-dispersed robot. Image credit: Jianfeng Yang / Tampere University.

Researchers Create Dandelion-Inspired Robot Controlled by Power of Light and Wind

Jan 30, 2023 by News Staff

The robot’s design is inspired by the seed of dandelion, resembling several biomimetic features, i.e., high porosity, lightweight, and separated vortex...

Schematic and applications of the liquid-solid phase transition of MPTM. Image credit: Wang et al., doi: 10.1016/j.matt.2022.12.003.

Shape-Shifting Robot Can Turn into Liquid and Escape Cage

Jan 26, 2023 by News Staff

Researchers from the Shenzhen Campus of Sun Yat-sen University, Carnegie Mellon University, the Chinese University of Hong Kong and Zhejiang University...

Kakei et al. established a design strategy for mounting electronics on insects through systematic evaluation of motion abilities and demonstrated charging and wireless locomotion control on living cyborg insects. Image credit: Kakei et al., doi: 10.1038/s41528-022-00207-2.

Researchers Create Power-Rechargeable Cyborg Insect

Sep 6, 2022 by News Staff

A team of scientists from RIKEN, Waseda Univerisity, the Fukui University of Technology and the Nanyang Technological University has created a cyborg cockroach...

Han et al. developed the smallest-ever remote-controlled walking robot. Image credit: Han et al., doi: 10.1126/scirobotics.abn0602.

Scientists Create World’s Tiniest Remote-Controlled Walking Robot

May 27, 2022 by News Staff

Just 0.5 mm wide, the tiny walking robot developed by Northwestern University’s Professor John Rogers and his colleagues can bend, twist, crawl, walk,...

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