Bio-inspired Robots

ALPHRED2: Autonomous Legged Helper Robot On Casters

Remember the ALPHRED2: it is an autonomous legged helper robot that can walk, hop, and roll. The robot can use…

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ACES: Smart Electronic Skin for Robots can Detect Touches 1000 Times Faster Than Human Skin

Plenty of researchers are working on new ways to give robots a superior sense of touch. The Asynchronous Coded Electronic…

5 years ago

3D Printed Tiny Vibration-Powered Robots by Georgia Tech Researchers

Here is a bunch of tiny 3D-printed robots that move by harnessing vibration from piezoelectric actuators. They are the size…

5 years ago

Foodly Lunch Packing Humanoid Robot

Robots are already capable of automating many tasks for food businesses. Foodly happens to be a humanoid robot capable of…

5 years ago

These 10g Robot Ants Can Jump & Work Together

Plenty of robots have been inspired by animals and insects. A team of EPFL researchers havs developed 10-gram robots inspired…

5 years ago

ALPHRED2: Autonomous Legged Helper Robot That Can Walk, Hop, Roll

Meet ALPHRED2: a multi-modal locomotion robot that can walk, hop, run, and roll. It is powered by RoMeLa's BEAR (Back-drivable…

5 years ago

Arduino Tree Branch Robots with Deep Learning Can Now Walk

In the past few years, we have seen plenty of innovative robot designs. Researchers from the University of Tokyo and…

5 years ago

Movement Control of Snake Robots in Complex Environments

In the past few years, we have seen plenty of snake-type robots that can move on land and in water…

5 years ago

RoboBee Untethered Insect-sized Robot with Tiny Solar Cells

In the past few years, we have covered a bunch of cool insect inspired robots. Harvard researchers have built the…

5 years ago

Jelly: Walking, Rolling Robot with Open Source Code

Meet Jelly: a walking, rolling robot that can change its shape to walk short distances or roll longer ones. It…

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