Britain will launch a robotic ‘Space Spider’ to the moon in 2021, the first time a walking King Rover has been sent to explore the distant world. This small probe, developed by London-based robotics experts SpaceBit – is set to go to the lunar surface with summer in the next …
Read More »By interacting in a limited space, a swarm of ‘smarts’ can create spontaneous choreography.Image: Courtesy Thomas Barutta In January 2020, the second-floor laboratory at Northwestern University was filled with light-running cloaking of three pushing robots. Around each other. The three were in a small ring colliding with each other, although …
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In another example of unsettling biomimicry, engineering researchers at the University of New South Wales in Sydney were inspired by the trunk of an elephant and designed to look like it. Robotic tongue Which can wrap itself around it like a snake and hold objects firmly. Biomimicry is an engineering …
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