A team of engineers at Harvard and MIT have created a robot that assembles itself in little more than four minutes and then crawls away — with no human help.The team of engineers and computer ...

A team of researchers from North Carolina State University has created a new 3D-printing method that builds paper-thin ‘magnetic muscles’ capable of bringing origami structures to life for the purpose ...

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In a Tesla earnings call Wednesday, the world’s richest man pondered the future of his company’s Optimus robots—and his control over them. Musk has also made it clear that he wants to get paid, a lot.

The next generation of soft robots might be folding and sliding as effortlessly as living tissue, say a team of engineers who have created “magnetic muscles” with 3D printing. Filling elastic, ...

A crawler robot made with the miura-ori origami pattern. The dark sections are affixed with thin "magnetic muscles" made by co-extruding rubber polymer and ferromagnetic particles, which move the ...

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Abstract: Robotic manipulators often face challenges in handling objects of different sizes and materials, limiting their effectiveness in practical applications. This issue is particularly pronounced ...

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