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A boost for manufacturing

A boost for manufacturing

Several years ago, Suzanne Berger was visiting a manufacturing facility in Ohio, talking to workers on the shop floor, when a machinist offered a thought that could serve as her current credo.  “Technology takes a step forward—workers take a step forward too,” the employee said.  Berger,...

Vine-inspired robot fingers can reach out and grab someone

Vine-inspired robot fingers can reach out and grab someone

In the horticultural world, some vines are especially grabby. As they grow, the woody tendrils can wrap around obstacles with enough force to pull down fences and trees. Inspired by vines’ twisty tenacity, engineers at MIT and Stanford University have developed a robotic gripper that can snake...

Just pull a string to turn these tile patterns into useful 3D structures

Just pull a string to turn these tile patterns into useful 3D structures

MIT researchers have developed a new method for designing 3D structures that can spring up from a flat sheet of interconnected tiles with a single pull of a string. The technique could be used to make foldable bike helmets and medical devices, emergency shelters and field hospitals for disaster...

The Download: radioactive rhinos, and the rise and rise of peptides

The Download: radioactive rhinos, and the rise and rise of peptides

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Why conservationists are making rhinos radioactive Every year, poachers shoot hundreds of rhinos, fishing crews haul millions of sharks out of...

The human work behind humanoid robots is being hidden

The human work behind humanoid robots is being hidden

This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. In January, Nvidia’s Jensen Huang, the head of the world’s most valuable company, proclaimed that we are entering the era of physical AI, when artificial...