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by Bruce Brown | August 10, 2020 | Enabling Tech, General News
C3PO and R2D2 notwithstanding, not all robots are hard. We’ve written about soft robots before, usually in devices that physically contact humans or when the robots function as muscle replacements. For example, in 2019, we wrote about work at Purdue on 3D...
by Bruce Brown | June 23, 2020 | Enabling Tech
Not all wearables wrap around a wrist, or even are attached anywhere to the outside of your body. In 2016 Alfred Poor wrote on this site about researchers at Arizona State University that created an edible supercapacitor that could deliver energy to a swallowed device...
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by Bruce Brown | March 20, 2019 | Enabling Tech
Most people routinely pick up hundreds of objects during a typical day, and they never give a second thought. For mechanical devices — such as robots or powered prosthetics — gripping objects of different sorts can pose a serious challenge. And if the...
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by Bruce Brown | January 1, 2018 | Enabling Tech, General News
Soft robotics enable smoother movement and greater dexterity than hard material robotics, traditionally at the cost of strength. Similarly, when we were kids, many of us learned the different characteristics of erector sets and cat’s cradle. We’ve written...
