In this episode, we explore the innovative fusion of robotics and culinary arts through the creation of RoboCake—an edible robotic wedding cake developed by researchers from EPFL

Engineering A Robot That Can Jump Feet High – Without Legs

Studying a leaping, body-bending parasite thinner than a human hair led Georgia Tech engineers to create a soft robot that can hop forward and backward.

Robotics meets the culinary arts

A Swiss Italian team has created RoboCake, an edible robotic wedding cake that illustrates the advances in robotic food research.

A flexible robot can help emergency responders search through rubble

SPROUT, developed by Lincoln Laboratory and University of Notre Dame researchers, is a vine robot capable of navigating under collapsed structures.

Movement creates intelligence - Unitree's G1 humanoid robot nails the world's first kip-up!

This fresh, newly captured video from Unitree's testing grounds showcases the breakneck speed of humanoid intelligence advancement. Every day brings something thrilling!

Artificial muscle flexes in multiple directions, offering a path to soft, wiggly robots

MIT engineers developed a way to grow artificial tissues that look and act like their natural counterparts.

Shape-changing soft material for soft robotics, smart textiles and more

Researchers encode multiple shapes into simple material

New moves for self-defense: How plants can inspire future Softbotic design

Complex and sophisticated, a plant’s mechanical systems could be the key to more advanced biohybrid softbotic designs.

Researchers Team Up to Advance Robotic Dexterity

Texas A&M University joins a Northwestern University-led Engineering Research Center to bring highly skilled, affordable robotic assistance to the workforce and beyond.

Robots au chocolat for dessert?

A fully edible robot could soon end up on our plate if we overcome some technical hurdles, say EPFL scientists involved in RoboFood – an EU-funded project which aims to marry robots and food.

What are Pneumatic Actuators? Principles, Types, and Applications

Pneumatic actuators convert compressed air into mechanical motion, enabling precise and efficient control in various industrial applications.

A better way to control shape-shifting soft robots

A new algorithm learns to squish, bend, or stretch a robot’s entire body to accomplish diverse tasks like avoiding obstacles or retrieving items.

An ink for 3D-printing flexible devices without mechanical joints

EPFL researchers are targeting the next generation of soft actuators and robots with an elastomer-based ink for 3D printing objects with locally changing mechanical properties, eliminating the need for cumbersome mechanical joints.

Intelligent liquid

Researchers develop metafluid with programmable response

Engineers design flexible "skeletons" for soft, muscle-powered robots

New modular, spring-like devices maximize the work of live muscle fibers so they can be harnessed to power biohybrid bots.

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