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A marriage of origami and robotics
Researchers at Harvard and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology are learning to reshape the landscape of programmable matter by devising self-folding sheets that rely on the ancient art of...
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Chips, efficient and fast
When in graduate school at Stanford University in the 1990s, Gu-Yeon Wei shared a trailer office near a little kitchen where two other students worked. When they were on the network, he said,...
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‘Pop!’ goes the robot
A new technique inspired by elegant pop-up books and origami will soon allow clones of robotic insects to be mass-produced by the sheet. Devised by engineers at Harvard, the ingenious layering and...
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Airmail, to your door
Internet retail giant Amazon.com hopes eventually to deliver packages by using flying robots, self-guided drones akin to those used by the military. The concept conjures images of holiday skies...
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‘It was sort of a eureka moment’
A team of engineers and computer scientists have unveiled the latest robotic and materials marvel: a flat sheet that folds itself into a robot that then walks away. The advance, overseen by Robert...
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Cutting the cord on soft robots
When it comes to soft robots, researchers have finally managed to cut the cord. Developers from Harvard’s School of Engineering and Applied Sciences and the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired...
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Robotic insect mimics nature’s extreme moves
Walking on water might sound supernatural, but in fact it is a quite natural phenomenon. Many small living creatures leverage the surface tension of water to move themselves around. One of the most...
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RoboBees can perch to save energy
Call them the RoboBats. In a recent article in Science, Harvard roboticists demonstrate that their flying microrobots, nicknamed the RoboBees, can now perch during flight to save energy — like bats,...
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The first autonomous, entirely soft robot
A team of Harvard University researchers with expertise in 3-D printing, mechanical engineering, and microfluidics has demonstrated the first autonomous, untethered, entirely soft robot. This small,...
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MilliDelta robot combines precision with speed
Because of their high precision and speed, Delta robots are deployed in many industrial processes, including pick-and-place assemblies, machining, welding, and food packaging. Starting with the first...
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Next generation of robots crawl, run, fly into the real world
EDGE OF DISCOVERY First in a series of articles on cutting-edge research at Harvard. On a visit to one Harvard robotics lab, the sewing machines stand out, while the head of another explains how and...
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On thesis day Harvard students celebrate: It’s finally finished
For many, writing a senior thesis is the ultimate academic challenge of College life. About half of Harvard students undertake this weighty endeavor, which is required only for honors students at most...
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Robobee makes its first solo flight
In the Harvard Microrobotics Lab, decades of research culminated in a moment of stress as the tiny, groundbreaking Robobee made its first solo flight. Graduate student Elizabeth Farrell Helbling, Ph.D....
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Harvard’s fall Gen Ed courses take a creative approach to a provocative...
It’s one thing to understand the physics of sound, but quite another to build a synthesizer or figure out why the instrument resonates better in one auditorium than another. In similar fashion,...
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Faculty experts (and expert parents) recommend gift books for children
Parents are always on the lookout for book suggestions, and this is particularly true around the holidays. Here are some fresh tips from experts and expert parents in the community, with age or grade...
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Laser-steering microrobot offers surgeons high-speed precision
Robotic engineers from Harvard’s Wyss Institute and John A. Paulson School for Engineering and Applied Science (SEAS) have developed a laser-steering microrobot that can be integrated with existing...
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