When science fiction authors imagined robots in the 20th century, many of them were huge imposing steel automatons. [Shane]’s designs for the Pretty Small Robot are quite contrary to that, being tiny in stature and cute in affect.
NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) is developing a snake-like robot that it hopes will one day send it to one of Saturn’s moons in search of life beyond Earth.
Inspired by the human finger, MIT researchers have developed a robotic hand that uses high-resolution touch sensing to accurately identify an object after grasping it just one time.