An autonomous robotic system detects toxic heavy metals in water using self-powered nanosensors and ambient heat, enabling safe, real-time environmental monitoring without external power or manual ...

STORY: This robot can surf across grains of wheat or barley like its swimming through water. Its creators say it could change the way we store the food we grow and even save lives. An Edinburgh-based ...

ORNL scientists developed an autonomous field data-gathering platform to monitor and sample soils and transfer real-time data back to the lab. From left, ORNL’s Chris Masuo, Peter Wang, Udaya Kalluri ...

(Nanowerk Spotlight) Roboticists have long aimed to create machines capable of navigating complex environments and performing sophisticated tasks by replicating the remarkable adaptability and ...

In a recent review published in the journal Gut, researchers discussed using smart and robotic capsules for sampling and sensing the gut. They described the benefits and limitations of these ...