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MIT and EPFL engineers have built a 300-gram flapping-wing robot that swims through water and transitions to flight without paddling, published in Science, inspired by diving birds and targeting oceanographic data collection in environments too dangerous for conventional vessels.
UC San Diego researchers have completed two minimally invasive gallbladder removal surgeries on live pigs using a teleoperated Unitree G1 humanoid robot, published in Nature, in what is described as the world’s first surgery performed by a humanoid robot controlled remotely by a surgeon.
Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania have published a study in Science describing tiny robots made from knotted fibers that can jump nearly two meters, control their flight path mid-air, and drive seeds into soil – activated by heat rather than electronics.