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Snap inflatable modular metastructures for multipath, multimode morphing machines Park et al. present a design strategy leveraging snap-through folding and modular assemblies to achieve reconfigurable morphing mechanisms. By integrating discrete snapping transitions with continuous...

Researchers introduce Snap Inflatable Modular Metastructures (SIMMs), enabling soft robots to crawl, climb, and reconfigure with a single air input. The snap-through mechanism enhances controlled motion, reducing system complexity.
#SoftRobotics #BistableMechanics #ModularDesign #AdaptiveMotion

Happy International Day of Women & Girls in Science!

I've been so lucky to speak to all these amazing and inspirational women in robotics over the past 5 years.
#WomenInScience #IDWGS2025 #WomenInSTEM

YouTube video by Nemitz Robotics Group A framework for soft mechanism driven robots

🦾 A multi-material 3D printing framework blends soft & rigid materials, enhancing #SoftRobotics for scalable swarm robotics deployment. Researchers demonstrated a legged robot tackling diverse terrains! 🌍🤖 Published in Nature Communications. #3DPrinting #SwarmRobotics

YouTube video by OpenSwarm drive-through charging in 16 seconds!!

🚗⚡Drive-through charging in just 16 seconds! The DotBot ditches batteries for supercapacitors, powering an hour of movement with a quick charge. This was achieved during a meet-up between the teams of Prof. Danny Hughes (KU Leuven) & Prof. Roderich Gross (U. of Sheffield/Darmstadt).
#Robotics #Swarm

YouTube video by Zhanchi Wang SpiRobs: Logarithmic spiral-shaped robots for versatile grasping across scales

🌀 Meet SpiRobs – soft robots shaped by the logarithmic spiral for adaptable grasping! Inspired by octopus arms, these scalable, 3D-printed robots use simple cable actuation to grip objects across sizes. Applications from drones to multi-robot arrays! #Robotics #SoftRobotics #Bioinspired

YouTube video by SDU Soft Robotics Earthworm-Inspired Soft Skin Crawling Robot | Advanced Science (2024)

Earthworm-inspired crawling robot 🪱 uses modular soft skins with bristles to mimic friction control, enabling efficient movement through tight spaces. Great for pipe inspection & soil sensing! 🚀 #Robotics #BioInspired #SoftRobotics

Even teleoperated robots are discriminated against in science fictions A robot body is not a shield from discrimination in John Scalzi’s science fiction novel Head On.

How does discrimination persist, even for robots? 🤖 Robin R. Murphy’s article explores John Scalzi’s Head On, a tale of teleoperated robots tackling bias, identity, and societal costs. A gripping mix of tech, ethics, and mystery! 🔍 #Robotics #SciFi #Inclusion

Magnetic swarm intelligence of mass-produced, programmable microrobot assemblies for versatile task execution Yang et al. present microrobot swarms that are mass produced through in situ replica molding and magnetization on a single microarray mold. By programming magnetization profiles of cuboid microrobots, the microrobots can be organized into head-to-tail (HT), slipped-co-facial (SC), and face-to-face (FF) assemblies. Microrobot swarms with distinct assembly features are deployed to perform self-climbing, self-throwing over an obstacle, self-lifting of an obstacle, cargo transportation, wire connection and disconnection, liquid metal (LM) shape modification, tube unclogging, and organism guiding.

Magnetic microrobot swarms 🤖🧲, mass-produced using replica molding and programmed with precise magnetization, tested with up to 250 robots, performing tasks like cargo transport, obstacle climbing, and tube unclogging. Scalable, versatile robotics in action! 🚀
#SwarmIntelligence #swarm #robotics

YouTube video by Science X: Phys.org, Medical Xpress, Tech Xplore A snake-like robot designed to look for life on Saturn's moon

🌌 NASA’s EELS robot 🐍 tackles the challenge of exploring Enceladus’ icy vents and subsurface oceans 🌊. This work advances robotics by developing risk-aware autonomy, motion planning under uncertainty, and extreme terrain mobility. A key step for astrobiology! 🚀 #NASA #Robotics #Astrobiology

Imaging-guided bioresorbable acoustic hydrogel microrobots Imaging-guided biodegradable microrobots can efficiently navigate biofluids for days, enhancing drug delivery efficiency.

Meet BAMs: bioresorbable acoustic microrobots! 🤖💊 They navigate the body, deliver targeted therapy, and dissolve safely post-treatment. With real-time imaging and validated efficacy, they promise breakthroughs in minimally invasive medicine. #Microrobots #BiomedicalTech #TargetedTherapy #Robotics

Monte Carlo tree search with spectral expansion for planning with dynamical systems Spectral Expansion Tree Search is a planning algorithm for robots that uses a low-complexity and provably correct representation for dynamical systems.

Real-time planning for robots just got smarter! 🤖✨ Meet SETS: a Spectral Expansion Tree Search that handles complex dynamics & continuous spaces. From drones braving wind tunnels to space debris missions, SETS empowers robots with versatility and precision. 🚀🌍 #Robotics #AIPlanning

Haptiknit: Distributed stiffness knitting for wearable haptics Distributed stiffness knitted textiles enable salient haptic cues from embedded pneumatic actuators in a wearable form factor.

🔍 Haptiknit introduces a soft, wearable haptic sleeve with embedded pneumatic actuators and distributed stiffness knitting. It offers a comfortable, portable solution for high-precision haptic feedback, effectively conveying touch sensations for applications like navigation and social interaction.

Autonomous robotics, sensors and advanced computing can now help with harvesting plant data Scientists at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory have demonstrated an autonomous robotic field monitoring, sampling and data-gathering system that could accelerate understanding ...

ORNL's autonomous robotic platform 🤖, the SMART Plant F-Series, is transforming bioenergy research 🌱. It navigates fields, collects soil and plant data in real-time ⏱️, and bridges lab and field insights 🔬. A step forward for understanding carbon cycles and boosting biofuel research 🌍!
#robotics #Bio

Analysis of the parametric configuration impact on BallBot control performance The BallBot, a versatile robot system, finds applications in various domains of life. It comprises a frame moved by three wheels mounted on a ball. The robot performance is significantly influenced b....

How do changes in mass or ball size affect a ball-balancing robot? This study examines the BallBot, showing how an LQR controller maintains balance and adapts to configuration tweaks. A detailed look at the dynamics of this fascinating robot. 🤖⚙️ #Robotics #ControlSystems #BallBot #Engineering

Microrobots and the 'lazy agent problem': Swarm study demonstrates a solution Imagine trying to move a heavy piece of furniture with a group of people. Everyone's effort matters, but how do you ensure that each person is pulling their weight? This challenge of fairly distributi...

🐜 A swarm of 200 laser-controlled microrobots learned teamwork using multiagent RL with counterfactual rewards. They collaboratively rotated rods, transported objects, and manipulated multiple items—paving the way for precise microscale tasks like assembly and drug delivery! 🤖 #SwarmRobotics #AI

Fascinating work! 💡 Could these results also be applied to SLAM in water distribution networks or pipelines, where challenges like textureless surfaces and dynamic lighting are common? 🌊🚰 Exploring cross-domain applications could be promising! 🔍✨

A cyborg cockroach factory: Automated assembly speeds up the creation of hybrid robots A team of mechanical engineers at Nanyang Technological University, in Singapore, has developed a way to automate the process of merging live cockroaches and electronics to create cyborg cockroaches, ...

🐞Scientists developed an automated system to mass-produce cyborg cockroaches, combining living insects with electronics for tasks like search-and-rescue. Their automated process makes creating these bio-robots faster and scalable—but is the future of robotics in bio-robots?🤔 #BioRobotics #Innovation

Trust the PRoC3S: Solving Long-Horizon Robotics Problems with LLMs and Constraint Satisfaction Recent developments in pretrained large language models (LLMs) applied to robotics have demonstrated their capacity for sequencing a set of discrete skills to achieve open-ended goals in simple roboti...

🤖 Robots, know your limits! Researchers at MIT CSAIL developed PRoC3S, combining LLMs and vision models to help robots plan tasks safely within physical constraints. From drawing stars to stacking blocks, this method tests plans in simulation to ensure success in the real world. 🌟 #Robotics #AI

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YouTube video by nature video Swallowable injections: the octopus-inspired pill that delivers drugs with a jet

💡 Inspired by cephalopods, researchers developed microjet drug delivery systems for the GI tract! 🌊🧬 These ingestible or endoscopic jets deliver insulin, GLP1, & siRNA with precision. 🚀 Tested in large animals, they rival subcutaneous injections—a leap for autonomous therapies!🙌

#DrugDelivery

A Review on Multisensor Data Fusion for Wearable Health Monitoring The growing demand for accurate, continuous, and non-invasive health monitoring has propelled multi-sensor data fusion to the forefront of healthcare technology. This review aims to provide an overvie...

🔬 This review highlights how multisensor fusion is revolutionizing wearable health tech! By combining heart rate, breathing, and motion data, it detects sleep apnea, tracks heart health, and measures respiration—all with precision. Smarter, accurate monitoring is here! 🩺✨ #HealthTech #Research

They show some illustrations in the paper, here is the arxiv version.
arxiv.org/abs/2309.09224

CapsuleBot: A Novel Hybrid Aerial-Ground Bi-Copter Robot With Two Actuated-Wheel-Rotors This paper presents the design, modeling, and experimental validation of CapsuleBot, a novel hybrid aerial-ground bi-copter robot designed for long-endurance and low-noise operations. CapsuleBot combi...

Meet CapsuleBot 🚀🤖: a hybrid aerial-ground bi-copter robot with innovative actuated-wheel-rotors! It combines flight agility ✈️ and ground efficiency 🛞 for low-noise, energy-saving performance. CapsuleBot conquers steep inclines 🏔️, cliffs 🌄, and rough terrains with ease! 💪
#robotics #drone

Imitation-Enhanced Reinforcement Learning With Privileged Smooth Transition for Hexapod Locomotion Deep reinforcement learning (DRL) methods have shown significant promise in controlling the movement of quadruped robots. However, for systems like hexapod robots, which feature a higher-dimensional a...

Hexapod robots just got an upgrade! 🕷️ Imitation-Enhanced Reinforcement Learning (IERL) tackles their high-dimensional control challenges, blending imitation learning and smooth RL transitions to enable dynamic movements, doubling speed, and conquering complex terrains. 🚀 #Robotics #AI

YouTube video by UZH Robotics and Perception Group Robotics meets Fluid Dynamics: A Characterization of the Airflow below a Drone as a Turbulent Jet

🌬️🤖 How much wind does a quadrotor generate when hovering? This study introduces a lightweight model predicting airflow beneath drones using turbulent jet theory. Validated by 16+ hours of flight data, it aids safe operations, sensor placement, and multi-agent control. 🚁🌱 #Robotics #AeroTech

YouTube video by nature video A robotic raspberry teaches machines how to pick fruit

🤖🍓Ever wondered how robots could delicately pick raspberries without squishing them? This study introduces a sensorized physical twin, mimicking raspberry plants, to train robots in the lab—no need to wait for harvest season! With this method, lab-trained robots achieved 80% success in the field. 🌱💡

Multidisciplinary research is a good way of doing impactful research. Here is an example!

#biodiversity #Ai #ComputerVision

There are important things to measure at every scale!
Here are robots taking microscale measurements!
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FRAME: A Modular Framework for Autonomous Map Merging: Advancements in the Field In this article, a novel approach for merging 3D point cloud maps in the context of egocentric multi-robot exploration is presented. Unlike traditional methods, the proposed approach leverages state-o...

Exploring big spaces? 🏞️ Autonomous robots now merge 3D maps like pros with FRAME—a modular framework for swift, precise map merging. 🚀 Say goodbye to slow feature extraction and hello to seamless exploration in complex, dynamic environments! 🤖✨
#RoboticsInnovation #SLAM #MRS #Ai #Robotics

YouTube video by CMU Robotic Exploration Lab CAPO: Control and Actuator Placement Optimization for Large-Scale Problems with Nonlinear Dynamics

Optimizing robot efficiency, one actuator at a time! 🤖💡 CAPO scales actuator placement and control, reducing actuator use by up to 27.5% while solving complex, large-scale problems faster than existing methods. From soft robots to spacecraft, CAPO boosts performance and design. 🚀
#Robotics #AI