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Microgrippers

Microscopic 'hands' for building tomorrow's machines

Chemistry /

created Jan 19, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

In a finding straight out of science fiction, chemical and biomolecular engineers in Maryland are describing development of microscopic, chemically triggered robotic "hands" that can pick up and move small ...





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A delicate grip

A delicate grip

Technology / Engineering

created Nov 04, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Solar wafers for use in the production of photovoltaic systems are extremely sensitive. In a test and demonstration center research is being conducted on grippers to determine the best way ...


Wireless Microgrippers Grab Living Cells in 'Biopsy' Tests

Wireless Microgrippers Grab Living Cells in 'Biopsy' Tests

Chemistry /

created Jan 12, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- In experiments that pave the way for tiny mobile surgical tools activated by heat or chemicals, Johns Hopkins researchers have invented dust-particle-size devices that can be used to grab ...


Care-O-bot 3: Always at your service

Care-O-bot 3: Always at your service

Electronics / Robotics

created Jul 01, 2008 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (13) | comments 0

Who doesn’t long for household help at times? Service robots will soon be able to relieve us of heavy, dirty, monotonous or irksome tasks. Research scientists have now presented a new generation of household ...


Pulling a nanowire from its substrate.

New Tools for a Nanotechnology Workshop

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created May 25, 2006 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (49) | comments 0 feature

Until recently, nanoscale devices could only be crafted through chemical reactions or by pushing components together on a smooth surface. Researchers at the Technical University of Denmark have developed and ...


Future space devices inspired by spider legs

Future space devices inspired by spider legs

Technology / Engineering

created Sep 07, 2006 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (50) | comments 0 feature

Are spiders ideal space travelers? Not quite, but according to a new study, their legs may be. Scientists Carlo Menon and Cristian Lira have designed and built lightweight, bendable joints based on the micro-hydraulic ...


Artificial Muscles Get a Grip on Human Hand

Artificial Muscles Get a Grip on Human Hand

Other Sciences /

created Mar 01, 2005 | popularity 3 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Six years ago a scientist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., issued a unique challenge: build a robotic arm using artificial muscles that could arm wrestle a human. The results of that ...


A man holds an iPod as he browses through the iTunes music store online

Feature: Hot-selling tech toys

Electronics /

created Nov 22, 2005 | popularity 2.8 / 5 (6) | comments 0

From the iPod to the Xbox, Robosapien V2 Robot and Amazing Amanda Interactive Baby Doll, there are a number of tech toys that are expected to be hot sellers this year.


Bob Anderson demonstrates the capabilities of the robot affectionately known as the M2, for Mighty Mouse. (Photo by Randy Montoy

'Mighty Mouse' robot frees stuck radiation source

Other Sciences /

created Dec 15, 2005 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (130) | comments 0

A Sandia National Laboratories robot recently withstood enough radiation to kill 40 men in freeing a stuck radiation source -- the size of a restaurant salt shaker -- at a White Sands Missile Range lab so that ...



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