The Robotics Collection

Attach an auxetic structure—that expands when pulled on—to a servo motor and you’ve got a more useful hardy soft robot.

A shape memory polymer allows the gripper to be more efficient than a purely hydraulic system. Roboticists may soon create miniature tools for minimally invasive surgery.

Like schools of fish or flocks of birds, “smart swarms” of micro-robots move in concert based on what’s happening in the environment.

With six arms, a Kiwi drive, and custom detectors designed for contact-based pollination, the precision Stickbug reaches flowers growing above the greenhouse floor while navigating narrow plant rows.

As an add-on to electric or hydraulic motors, an efficient spring-assisted actuator could be a “game changer” for robotics.

Northwestern University researchers have developed a method that allows robots to learn to perform new tasks reliably and safely using less data.

Despite advances in robotic components, a new study finds that modern robots lack the integration capabilities to support locomotion at the same level as the animals that often inspire their design.

Toyota Research Institute’s Punyo soft robot is an innovation in whole-body manipulation research.

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After contemplating a Lego, researchers at Carnegie Mellon have developed a small robot with complex mobility.