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- New 'soft' motor made from artificial muscles
- In new mass-production technique, robotic insects spring to life
- Malaria parasite goes bananas before sex
| New 'soft' motor made from artificial muscles Posted: 15 Feb 2012 12:53 PM PST The electrostatic motor, used more than 200 years ago by Benjamin Franklin to rotisserie a turkey, is making a comeback in a promising new design for motors that is light, soft, and operates without external electronic controllers. |
| In new mass-production technique, robotic insects spring to life Posted: 15 Feb 2012 12:53 PM PST 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, the ingenious layering and folding process enables the rapid fabrication of not just microrobots, but a broad range of electromechanical devices. |
| Malaria parasite goes bananas before sex Posted: 14 Feb 2012 07:09 AM PST New research shows how the malaria parasite changes into a banana shape before sexual reproduction, a finding that could provide targets for vaccine or drug development and may explain how the parasite evades the human immune system. |
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