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Robot Finger’s Living Skin Stretches, Heals Like the Real Thing
Robot Finger’s Living Skin Stretches, Heals Like the Real Thing
Researchers in Japan have given a plastic robot finger a layered coating made from actual, living skin cells. Next, they aim to add hair and sweat glands.
Researchers in Japan have given a plastic robot finger a layered coating made from actual, living skin cells. Next, they aim to add hair and sweat glands.
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Fish and Bees “Talk” with Help from Robot Translators
Jef Akst | Mar 20, 2019 | 4 min read
Robots integrated into groups of zebrafish and of one-day-old honey bees allow the two species to influence each other’s behavior.
Image of the Day: Colorful Butterfly-Bot
The Scientist Staff and The Scientist Staff | Apr 5, 2018 | 1 min read
Scientists engineered biomaterials similar to those chameleons use to change color and applied them to a robot.
Collective Robot Behavior
Jef Akst | Aug 18, 2014 | 1 min read
A swarm of more than 1,000 small, puck-shaped robots can assemble into diverse patterns.
Send in the Bots
Jef Akst | Oct 1, 2013 | 10+ min read
Animal robots have become a unique tool for studying the behavior of their flesh-and-blood counterparts.
Robo Frogs
Jef Akst | Sep 30, 2013 | 1 min read
University of Wisconsin researcher Barrett Klein’s robotic tungara frogs call to females.
Medical 3-D Printing’s Frontiers
Kate Yandell | Aug 22, 2013 | 2 min read
Layer-by-layer manufacturing techniques could help re-make human body parts, or produce entirely new biocompatible machines.