A bioinspired, soft robotic caterpillar that uses the contraction of live heart cells to propel its motion.
Electronics that Imitate Life: A Sensing Robotic Hand
Intrinsic or tightly integrated sensing, actuation, and computation embedded into 3D structures could enable a new generation of truly smart and complex systems, such as robots that have human-like dexterity.
Liquid-Metal-Driven Micromachines for the Next Cutting-edge Technology
Is the T-1000 no longer science fiction?
Robotic Dorsal Fins Help Us Understand Aquatic Movement
Artificial muscles based on multidirectional actuators for biomimetic fins.
A Magnetic Composite for Artificial Skin Technologies
Integration of a magnetic elastomer with data-driven analysis leads to a continuous interaction surface that can estimate location and depth of indentation.
Beta’s Draft: A Human Review of a Machine-generated Book
Springer Nature have published a work written by AI.
Mimicking Living Systems using Polymer Chemistry
PISA allows for the complete synthesis of chemical systems without using biochemistry.
Love in the Time of Automata
Materials science meets Mills and Boon.
Geometry- and Topology-Controlled Nanoarchitectures: Focussed Session
An interplay between two realms is the subject of the Focussed Session: Geometry- and Topology-Controlled Nanoarchitectures at the Joint Meeting of DPG (Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft) and EPS (European Physical Society) Condensed Matter Divisions on March 13, 2018 at the TU Berlin.
Artificial Muscle is Light-Triggered, Redox-Actuated
A photoinduced redox reaction is used to cause the contraction of an artificial hydrogel muscle, leading to macroscale actuation and measurable work.