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Robotics & UAVs

Optical lace gives light touch to soft robots

Robotic hand gets to grips with assembly line jobs

Video of the week: tether-free robot takes flight from water

Shape-shifting electronics have potential for implants and movable medical sensors

Repairs on high: engineering innovation in aircraft maintenance

Last week’s poll: slow adoption of industrial robots in the UK

New technique aids indoor navigation for drones and robots

Soft robot actuators printed at minute scale

Thread robot is designed to remove blood clots in brain

Artificial evolution teaches robots to swarm in the wild

Motion of untethered soft robot hinges on external stimuli

Artificial compound eye makes sense of natural world