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Home > Press > A color-based sensor to emulate skin's sensitivity: In a step toward more autonomous soft robots and wearable technologies, EPFL researchers...
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Dec 05, 2023
(Nanowerk News) Soft robotics has tantalized researchers with its promise of machines that can squeeze into tight spaces, handle fragile objects, and...
We don’t think twice about using our hands throughout the day for tasks that still thwart sophisticated robots—pouring coffee without spilling when half-awake, folding...
Nov 19, 2023
(Nanowerk News) For decades, scientists have envisioned a future where nimble robots could traverse rugged terrain and squeeze into tight spaces, ideal...
Nov 15, 2023
(Nanowerk News) With 3D inkjet printing systems, engineers can fabricate hybrid structures that have soft and rigid components, like robotic grippers...
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(Nanowerk News) In a study published recently in Advanced Intelligent Systems ("An Electric Self-Sensing and Variable-Stiffness Artificial Muscle"), researchers from Queen...
May 23, 2023
(Nanowerk Spotlight) Soft materials such as polymers, rubbers, and hydrogels play a significant role in your everyday life. From your car's...
Home > Press > Researchers at Purdue discover superconductive images are actually 3D and disorder-driven fractals
Abstract:Meeting the world’s energy demands is reaching...