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Structures and functions of bird’s eye. (a) Bird vision. (b) Deep central fovea and four types of cones. (c) Foveated vision and tetrachromatic vision.

Innovative bird-eye-inspired camera developed for enhanced object detection

The Third Thumb helping the user to open a bottle

Public have no difficulty getting to grips with an extra thumb, study finds

picture of ai helping a woman overcome loneliness

Artificial Intelligence could help cure loneliness

AI poised to usher in new level of concierge services to the public

To clean water, researchers have designed swarms of tiny, spherical robots (light yellow) that collect bacteria (green) and small pieces of plastic (gray).

Microrobots Clean Microplastics and Bacteria from Water

robotic spider

Robots Still Lag Behind Animals in Foot Races

Rendering of pleurocystitid (left) next to the soft robot they modeled after the ancient sea creature.

How ancient sea creatures can inform soft robotics

Two-legged biohybrid robot

Scientists design a two-legged robot powered by muscle tissue

Speaking in a local accent might make social robots seem more trustworthy and competent

Speaking in a local accent might make social robots seem more trustworthy and competent

Figure 1. (A) Reconstructed Caudipteryx © Christophe Hendrickx. Used under the terms of the Creative Commons license (CC BY-SA 3.0). Licensing details: [https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/deed.en]. (B) Robopteryx, imitating the morphology of Caudipteryx, positioned in front of a grasshopper in the field (marked by a red arrow). (C) Grasshopper tested in the experiments.

Feathered Dinosaurs’ Surprising Purpose: Scaring, Not Flying

A water skimmer robot created by WSU scientists.

Mini-robots modeled on insects may be smallest, lightest, fastest ever developed

The robotic garment (above), worn around the hips and thighs, gives a gentle push to the hips as the leg swings, helping the patient achieve a longer stride.

Soft robotic, wearable device improves walking for individual with Parkinson’s disease

The shape-changing polymer ribbons can change their volume upon an environmental change, like temperature. Courtesy of Taylor Ware

Fire Ant ‘Rafts’ Inspire Engineering Research

An Anthrobot is shown, depth colored, with a corona of cilia that provides locomotion for the bot

Scientists build tiny biological robots from human cells

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