ENG: Tsubame Industries developed a 4.5-meter tall, four-wheeled robot that gives onlookers the thought of being able to make their wildest Gundam dreams come true. The name ARCHAX was derived from the avian dinosaur archaeopteryx. It has two modes, the upright ‘robot mode’ and a ‘vehicle mode,’ which allows the user to travel up to 10km per hour.
Category: Robotics
This 3D Printed Gripper Doesn’t Need Electronics To Function
ENG: Most 3D-printed soft robots often have a certain degree of stiffness; contain a large number of leaks when they come off the printer; and need a fair amount of processing and assembly after printing in order to be usable. However, this soft robotic gripper is not only 3D printed in one print, it also doesn’t need any electronics to work. The device was developed by a team of roboticists at the University of California San Diego, in collaboration with researchers at the BASF corporation, who detailed their work in a recent issue of Science Robotics.
Mori3: A Polygon Shapeshifting Robot for Space Travel
ENG: By combining inspiration from the digital world of polygon meshing and the biological world of swarm behavior, the Mori3 robot can morph from 2D triangles into almost any 3D object. The École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) research, which has been published in Nature Machine Intelligence, shows the promise of modular robotics for space travel.
Urban Reef
ENG: Dutch designers Pierre Oskam and Max Latour have come up with a way to make cities more biodiverse, named Urban Reef. Their solution involves using natural materials to create structural ecosystems that can be integrated within the built environment like fountains, for example.