Month: February 2018

The field of robotic study has constant improvement because people are trying to use robots in different segments
When Robots Will Beat Humans at Foosball?

Your weekly selection of awesome robot videos

Video Friday: More Boston Dynamics, OpenCat Robot, and Uncanny Valley

A lighter and more efficient redesign of IIT’s disaster robot can fight industrial fires

New WALK-MAN Robot Is Slimmer, Quicker, Better at Quenching Your Flames

Researchers developed a soft robot inspired by snakeskin that crawls without any rigid components. The soft robotic scales are made using kirigami — an ancient Japanese paper craft that relies on cuts, rather than origami folds, to change the properties of a material. As the robot stretches, the flat kirigami surface is transformed into a 3-D-textured surface, which grips the ground just like snakeskin.
Snake-inspired robot uses kirigami to move

Harvard researchers are developing robots with deformable scaly skin that can move like snakes

Artificial Snakeskin Helps Robots Get Their Slither On

A new robotic system could lend a hand with warehouse sorting and other picking or clearing tasks.
Robo-picker grasps and packs

Scientists have developed robotic crystals that walk slowly like an inchworm and roll 20,000 times faster than its walking speed. These autonomously moving, organic crystals have great potential as material for soft robots in the future.
Robotic crystals that walk n' roll

A new login authentication approach could improve the security of current biometric techniques that rely on video or images of users’ faces. Known as Real-Time Captcha, the technique uses a unique ‘challenge’ that’s easy for humans — but difficult for attackers who may be using machine learning and image generation software to spoof legitimate users.
Real-time Captcha technique improves biometric authentication