Sep 20, 2023 (Nanowerk News) Call it the big bang for bug-sized robots. Cornell researchers combined soft microactuators with high-energy-density chemical fuel to create an insect-scale quadrupedal robot that is powered by combustion and can outrace, outlift, outflex and outleap its electric-driven competitors. This combustion-powered quadrupedal robot is capable of...
the metallic relative of graphene
Sep 20, 2023 (Nanowerk News) Two-dimensional materials like graphene show fascinating properties such as superconductivity, extraordinary strength and exotic quantum phenomena. Scientists at Forschungszentrum Jülich, together with partners from the Indian Institute of Technology in Patna and the Australian University of Newcastle, have now created a special material of this...