This comprehensive article dives deep into the world of robotics, exploring the history, types, engineering components, applications, and future trends of robots, offering readers an in-depth understanding of how these remarkable machines work and shape our lives.
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Technique paves the way for more complex, customizable devices
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Sleeve attaches directly around the heart
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Hybrid silicone-fabric sensor detects fine motor movements by flexing with the body
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A soft wearable robotic suit promotes normal walking in stroke patients, opening new approaches to gait re-training and rehabilitation
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Bioinspired approach combines pop-up fabrication with soft robotics
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Mcity demonstrates the powerful pairing of connectivity and automation.
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Origami-inspired muscles are both soft and strong, and can be made for less than $1
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Harnessing friction gives soft robots new capabilities
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‘HAMR’ can walk on land, swim, and walk underwater
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Robots perform many tasks that humans can’t or don't want to perform, getting around on intricately designed wheels and limbs. If they tip over, however, they are rendered almost useless.
The impact of artificial intelligence within warehouses will act as a crystal ball for AI, robotics in other industries
Car sharing with autonomous vehicles could improve cities in many different ways. Singapore is taking a pioneering role, working with ETH researchers to explore the potential of personalised, electrified and automated public transport.
No contact is required with objects by using inexpensive, handheld 'light-reading' device
In human-robot collaboration, human and machine work hand in hand. The human operator controls and monitors production, the robots perform the physically strenuous work. Both contribute their specific capabilities.
Engineers have developed robots capable of self-propulsion without using any motors, servos, or power supply. Instead, these first-of-their-kind devices paddle through water as the material they are constructed from deforms with temperature changes.
