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EPFL researchers developed GOAT, a shape-shifting robot that adapts to different terrains. It can transform into a rover or sphere to drive, roll downhill, and swim. Its versatile design helps it navigate challenging environments while…

What if a drone could change its shape while flying through tight spaces? 🤖 Researchers at the University of Zurich and EPFL developed a quadrotor with four independently actuated arms that can fold and reconfigure mid-flight. By…

This table can move using small robots underneath it. Meet Roombots, modular robots developed by EPFL in Switzerland. Each module is 22 cm long, weighs around 1.4 kg, and has 3 motorized rotation axes. They connect to each other,…

If one of these showed up in the back yard I might think the aliens have arrived. https://t.co/ckKh5VtQsw

Meet Morpho, a unique inspection drone developed by Elythor, an EPFL spinoff company. It uses wind and adaptive wings to extend flight time and enable vertical and horizontal flight. It can inspect power plants, power lines, turbines,…

Another swiss deep-tech gem! 🇨🇭 Lausanne has built a strong robotics ecosystem around @EPFL, one of Europe's leading technical universities. The university brings together world-class research in robotics, AI, computer vision, drones,…

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Engineers at MIT and EPFL in Lausanne, Switzerland, have designed a robot that can swim underwater, and flap out of the water to continue flying through air, much like a diving bird. The robot can help scientists study the mechanics that…

The robot you see here is Mori3, a modular robot developed at EPFL in Switzerland. It is composed of triangular modules that can connect to one another and change shape. It is a reconfigurable modular robot designed to explore different…

MIT and EPFL engineers built a puffin-inspired robot that can fly and swim underwater. It uses flapping wings to move through both environments without extra propulsion. The robot could study icebergs, monitor whales, and collect water…

EPFL and NYU researchers developed ScaFi, a scalable robotic fish designed to operate across environments ranging from shallow creeks to open water. Built in three sizes, it maintains similar fish-like swimming motion by adjusting only its…

What if you could 3D print tissue-like structures with light? EPFL researchers developed a holographic 3D printing method that is up to 70x more efficient, producing complex, cell-compatible structures in seconds to minutes, including a…

A robot that swims underwater, then flies straight out of it! 🦢 Water is 1,000 times denser than air. Moving through one or the other normally means two completely different machines. Around 100 bird species disagree. Loons, gulls,…