BALTIMORE, Md. – In looking for creative inspiration, engineering student Qiyuan Fu finds it in a box, with an interesting occupant. Inside: a real, live snake. “We can definitely learn something from ...

Topic:Bio-Inspired Robots for Ocean Exploration: How Nature Can Help Us Design Next-Generation Technologies As new technologies develop, researchers can use swimming robots and bio-inspired designs to ...

Top: SEAMOUR, the robotic sea lion. Bottom: Its digital twin. A Drexel Engineering team has developed a highly accurate numerical model that predicts how their bio-robotic sea lion swims and maneuvers ...

If you put a robot vacuum in a living room, it will meticulously map the baseboards. Move a single armchair, however, and the machine may spin in confused circles, trapped by its own digital blueprint ...

Chemists made magnetically powered robots able to move faster with a clever design trick. They created a flexible film that has little pockets of magnetic powder in it, instead of mixing the powder ...