Researchers have built a flower-shaped robot that can pick up objects more than 100 times its own weight. The robot has an origami "magic ball" skeleton, and its main advantage is that it's able ...

and robot, because its sensory apparatus moves, opening like a flower once implanted (SN: 3/3/21). “Of all the soft robotics that I’ve seen, it’s kind of the one that you say, ‘Wow ...

That robot pollinated blackberries and raspberries, and was developed as a proof of concept that robots can do precision pollination (“We’re trying to, like an insect, get in each flower ...