Tag: robot

  • Nation & World

    Both marathoner and sprinter

    Scientists from Harvard and the University of Virginia have developed the first robotic tuna that can accurately mimic both the highly efficient swimming style of tuna, and their high speed.

    4 minutes
    George Lauder holding a robotic fish
  • Nation & World

    Replacing hard parts in soft robots

    Harvard scientists have created a soft valve that could replace “hard” valves and lead to the creation of entirely soft robots. The valve’s structure can also be used to produce unique, oscillatory behavior.

    5 minutes
    Soft robot.
  • Nation & World

    Onward and upward, robots

    The first article in a series on cutting-edge research at Harvard explores advances in robotics.

    15 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Root, the code-teaching robot

    A Wyss Institute robot named Root is designed to teach computer coding to anyone from a 5-year-old to an intermediate programmer.

    4 minutes
  • Nation & World

    ‘It was sort of a eureka moment’

    Harvard engineers demonstrated a novel engineering process by creating a self-assembling robot that folds up from a flat sheet of composite material and then walks away. The Gazette spoke with engineering Professor Robert Wood about the project.

    6 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Sending DNA robot to do the job

    Researchers at the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University have developed a robotic device made from DNA that could potentially seek out specific cell targets within a complex mixture of cell types and deliver important molecular instructions, such as telling cancer cells to self-destruct or programming immune responses.

    5 minutes