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Tiny robot could stop bleeding from inside the body using heat

A centimetre-sized robot with a soft body and metallic scales inspired by pangolins can stop bleeding or destroy cells from inside the body using heat

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Golfi, the golf robot

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Watch this golf robot navigate to a ball by itself and sink a putt

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Bioinspired robots interact with performers in new dance project

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Bioinspired robots interact with performers in new dance project

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A tiny gearbox driven by an external magnetic field enabled one soft robot to jump almost 40 times its height

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Magnetic gearbox could power robots to crawl or jump inside your body

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A tiny robot runs at 70 body lengths per second at its fastest. making it incredibly fast for its size. In comparison, a cheetah runs at about 20-something body lengths per second.

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Tiny electromagnetic robot runs fast and re-forms after being squished

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A robot that picks up and untangles cables

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Robot unties knotted cables but can't pick them up off the floor

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robot finger

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Scientists covered a robot finger in living human skin

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Laundry robot

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Robot that can do laundry by itself will help test washing machines

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soft robot

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Pasta-shaped robot with no moving parts can navigate through mazes

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Drone with fish-inspired suction disc

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Robot can fly, swim or hitch a ride by sticking to other objects

An amphibious drone that can attach itself to other objects with a suction cup could be used to track marine animals such as whales

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Robotic fingertip has human-like sense of touch

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Robot scientist finds most breast cancer studies aren't reproducible

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Robot made of magnetic slime could grab objects inside your body

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Foot tickling machine could help beat stress by inducing laughter

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