Innovative magnetic robots for steel bridge inspection utilize AI and advanced sensors, ensuring effective defect detection and structural health monitoring.

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Soft robots are only as capable as the artificial muscles that drive them, and for years those muscles have forced a trade-off between strength and flexibility. A new magnetic polymer design is ...

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 ...

A new 3-D printing technique can create paper-thin "magnetic muscles," which can be applied to origami structures to make them move. By infusing rubber-like elastomers with materials called ...

(a) Structural decomposition diagrams of the soft sheet robot and magnetorheological fluids. (b) Diagram of the 3D model of the soft sheet robot. (c) Microstructure diagram of magnetorheological ...

A crawler robot made with the miura-ori origami pattern. The dark sections are affixed with thin "magnetic muscles" made by co-extruding rubber polymer and ferromagnetic particles, which move the ...

Autonomous Mobile Robot technology HAKOBU is designed to save production time and can move in any direction, all without having to charge a battery The new HAKOBU magnetic robot transport system can ...

A flexible magnetic soft robot using magnetorheological fluids navigates the gastrointestinal tract, folds to fit narrow passages, and delivers drugs to targeted lesion sites. (Nanowerk News) ...

Study: 3D-Printed soft Magnetoactive origami actuators. Advanced Functional Materials. Image Credit: SewCreamStudio/Shutterstock.com As outlined in a new study that ...

SplashBotix uses magnetic couplings to create safer, miniaturized robotic fountains for children’s playgrounds, preventing harm from foreign objects. The technology replaces traditional mechanical ...