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Soft “robo hands” for marine research

Jellyfish remain relaxed in the grip of gentle "pasta fingers". (Image: Anand Varma) Gentle "pasta fingers" instead of rigid claws: biologists have shown the potential...

You cannot simply unsubscribe online

Do you no longer like that online streaming service, are you flooded with (useless) notifications from the one social network you want to get...

Snakes: teacher of robotics

Following the example of snakes, researchers have developed a robot that can climb steps. (Image: JHU / Will Kirk) They effortlessly meander through rugged terrain...

Canonical lures Windows 7 users to Ubuntu

Windows 7 is no longer supported and various organizations are doing their best to get users to switch from Microsoft's operating system to something...

Freight drones in sight

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ydXJj-dL2Ak https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xNfLfrRyO9o You could carry loads of 200 kilograms up to 500 kilometers through the ground-level airspace: DLR develops automatic cargo drones. A prototype has now...

DNA turns objects into data stores

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qOUwVpLBajo A plastic rabbit that encodes its own 3D printing instructions: Researchers can use a new method to turn almost any object into data storage....

Developed living robots

A 3D organism designed by an evolutionary algorithm and built from living cells. (Image: Image courtesy of Douglas Blackiston) So far, plastic, metal and artificial...

Nano-tiles save screen energy

A glass pane coated with several layers of semiconductor nanoplates begins to glow blue in UV light. (Photo: ETH Zurich / Jakub Jagielski) Brilliant colors...

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