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Oct 11, 2026 · Post · posted
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Researchers at Duke University have developed MARBLE, an amphibious robot that moves on land and water by shifting three internal weights inside a sealed spherical shell. Its shell rolls on land and uses passive fins to propel itself… |
What if robots didn’t need a front, back, or even a preferred direction? 🤖 Duke University’s Argus has 20 telescoping legs, each equipped with a depth camera, allowing it to see and move in virtually every direction. Inspired by sea… |
It moves by shifting its own weight around inside! 🥎 MARBLE, from the General Robotics Lab at Duke University. A sealed sphere that rolls across land, propels itself on water, and has no external moving parts at all. Three mass sliders… |
Seven joints, and not one of them rotates 🔩 The Cartesian Hand, from the General Robotics Lab at Duke University. Every joint is prismatic. Pure linear motion, no rotary articulation anywhere in the hand. Two independently actuated… |