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Microscopic 'hands' for building tomorrow's machines
Jan 19, 2009 |
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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
Nov 04, 2009 |
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(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
Jan 12, 2009 |
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(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
Jul 01, 2008 |
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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 ...
New Tools for a Nanotechnology Workshop
May 25, 2006 |
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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
Sep 07, 2006 |
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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
Mar 01, 2005 |
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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 ...
Feature: Hot-selling tech toys
Nov 22, 2005 |
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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.
'Mighty Mouse' robot frees stuck radiation source
Dec 15, 2005 |
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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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