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Gecko-Like Drone Can Land On Walls And Ceilings [Updated]
AVL Microquad Clings to a Ceilingvia Autonomous Vehicle LaboratoryThis drone could become the proverbial fly on the wall. Thanks to a joint research project between the University of Maryland's...
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How To Make A Surface Shed Bugs Like Water Droplets
Stick No MoreScott Bauer, USDA ARSA Colorado potato beetle, Leptinotarsa decemlineataCan I just coat all the walls of my apartment with this? A team of biologists has found how to make a material that...
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Researchers Create Micro-Flyer That "Swims" in Air
Video of 0TG_nSajvesLief Ristroph and Stephen Childress of New York University have taken an alternate route around evolution's highway: They've created a miniature flying machine that moves not like a...
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Fast-Running Robot Cheetah Let Off Its Leash
The MIT Cheetah RobotJose-Luis Olivares/MIT, CC BY-NC-ND 3.0It bounds just like a rabbit, but it's not quite as cute. Check out the latest iteration of MIT's Cheetah robot. It's just received an...
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Mussels Inspire A Glue That Works Underwater
Firmly GluedVicki Burton on Flickr, CC BY-SA 2.0There's a new prototype glue that sticks like mussels to a rock—literally. The glue, which works underwater, incorporates proteins that mussels normally...
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Hybrid Bird Drone Flaps Through The Sky
Robo Raven VScreenshot by author, from YouTubeRarely has human flight achieved the gracefulness of the birds. Manned airplanes, no matter how sleek, are still largely tubes with wings, pulled through...
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Watch MIT's Robot Cheetah Jump Over Obstacles
Cheetahs are known for their speed, but the robotic Cheetah 2 created by the brilliantly twisted minds at MIT's Biomimetics Robotics Lab has another skill to brag about: its jumping prowess. As shown...
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Robots Are Using Dragonfly Eyes To Better Track Moving Objects
Scientists Zahra Bagheri and Benjamin Cazzolato, and robot.The University of AdelaideSome robots of the future will see the world through the eyes of insects. In a study published this week in the...
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Nano-Sized Synthetic Coral Could Suck Up Ocean's Pollutants
Coral ReefUSFWS Headquarters/ Flickr CC By 2.0Corals are great at absorbing toxic heavy metals, which is one of the many reasons they are dying off. Now researchers have created synthetic corals that...
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Robotic Whiskers Could Help Robots Navigate Through Dark and Murky Environments
WhiskersDan Heatherly/ Flickr CC By ND-2.0Many mammals such as cats, rats, and seals use their whiskers as a major sensory system to detect objects in dark environments or even to identify changes in...
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Drone Borrows Bird's Technique For Low Power Flight
Fisher et alKestrel Inspired Foam DroneHumans don’t need to reinvent the wing to make a better flying machine. Instead, they can just copy a design from nature. Falcon evolution has had millenniums to...
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This Roach-Inspired Robot Crawls Even When Squished
Image courtesy of PolyPEDAL Lab, University of California at BerkeleyAmerican cockroach atop a bioinspired compressible robot.Cockroaches slip through the cracks. While this is a huge problem for...
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MIT's Mini Cheetah Robot Has Happy Flapping Head
Technology Cheetahs don't jump, they bounce Look at this weird bouncing robot.
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Fast-Running Robot Cheetah Let Off Its Leash
Technology Not creepy at all. It bounds just like a rabbit, but it's not quite as cute. Check out the latest iteration of MIT's Cheetah robot. It's just received an algorithm update that allows it to...
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Mussels Inspire A Glue That Works Underwater
Science It's the strongest bio-inspired, waterproof adhesive yet. There's a new prototype glue that sticks like mussels to a rock—literally. The glue, which works underwater, incorporates proteins...
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Hybrid Bird Drone Flaps Through The Sky
Aviation Robotic elegance Rarely has human flight achieved the gracefulness of the birds. Manned airplanes, no matter how sleek, are still largely tubes with wings, pulled through the sky by powerful…
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Watch MIT's Robot Cheetah Jump Over Obstacles
Science Cat-like reflexes Cheetahs are known for their speed, but the robotic Cheetah 2 created by the brilliantly twisted minds at MIT's Biomimetics Robotics Lab has another skill to brag about: its…
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Robots Are Using Dragonfly Eyes To Better Track Moving Objects
Science The tiny insects see in low-res, but are masters of motion tracking Some robots of the future will see the world through the eyes of insects. In a study published this week in the Journal of...
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Nano-Sized Synthetic Coral Could Suck Up Ocean's Pollutants
Environment Absorbing more heavy metal than Scandinavia Corals are great at absorbing toxic heavy metals, which is one of the many reasons they are dying off. Now researchers have created synthetic...
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Robotic Whiskers Could Help Robots Navigate Through Dark and Murky Environments
Technology Here, robot, robot Many mammals such as cats, rats, and seals use their whiskers as a major sensory system to detect objects in dark environments or even to identify changes in currents in…
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