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fromdesignboom | architecture & design magazine
1 week ago

scientists recycle food waste into robotic claw machines that can grip objects

Crustacean shells repurposed as robotic components provide a hard–soft structural mix enabling strong, flexible, recyclable robotic grippers, manipulators, and swimming fins.
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fromYanko Design - Modern Industrial Design News
3 months ago

MIT develops robotic bee that can flip and hover, and could pollinate plants on other planets someday - Yanko Design

MIT developed a paperclip-weight bee-like robot that flaps wings up to 400 times per second, reaches 2 m/s, can flip and hover for hard-to-reach missions.
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