Humans rely increasingly on sensors to address grand challenges and to improve quality of
life in the era of digitalization and big data. For ubiquitous sensing, flexible sensors are …

Autonomous robots are expected to perform a wide range of sophisticated tasks in complex,
unknown environments. However, available onboard computing capabilities and algorithms …

Synthetic biology and bioengineering provide the opportunity to create novel embodied
cognitive systems (otherwise known as minds) in a very wide variety of chimeric …

The rich variety of biological forms and behaviours results from one evolutionary history on
Earth, via frozen accidents and selection in specific environments. This ubiquitous baggage …

The past ten years have seen the rapid expansion of the field of biohybrid robotics. By
combining engineered, synthetic components with living biological materials, new robotics …

Nano quadcopters are ideal for gas source localization (GSL) as they are safe, agile and
inexpensive. However, their extremely restricted sensors and computational resources make …

Developing small mobile robots for Urban Search and Rescue (USAR) is a major challenge
due to constraints in size and power required to perform vital functions such as obstacle …

The next robotics frontier will be led by biohybrids. Capable biohybrid robots require
microfluidics to sustain, improve, and scale the architectural complexity of their core …

Tiny “gnat robots,” weighing just a few milligrams, were first conjectured in the 1980s. How to
stabilize one if it were to hover like a small insect has not been answered. Challenges …

Due to unique abilities of the animals regarding analysis of complex gas substances, they
still remain a gold standard in analysis of explosives. Unusual capabilities of biological …