Japan’s New Interactive Gummy Robot Candies Become Latest Snack Craze

Japanese researchers created an interactive gummy robot in the lab—but it's not the snack sensation headlines suggest.
Controllers, actuators, feedback systems

Japanese researchers created an interactive gummy robot in the lab—but it's not the snack sensation headlines suggest.

Campus delivery robots promised efficiency and innovation—but rising costs and winter weather forced another shutdown in Wisconsin.

Rather than allowing the instrument to become inert in orbit due to fuel depletion or component failure, robotic systems could perform refueling, replace...

Robot lawn mowers from Navimow automate grass cutting but require careful planning around boundary systems, seasonal limitations, and yard complexity.

Autonomous cleaning robots are moving beyond experimental pilots into everyday office buildings, reshaping facility operations and labor dynamics.

Gene-editing tools let researchers reprogram the enzymes that control when plant cells divide, transforming how scientists approach crop improvement.

SwitchBot's hybrid robot vacuum-stick cleaner tackles storage and convenience, but shared batteries and performance trade-offs define real-world use.

These collaborations provide students with hands-on experience developing, testing, and refining autonomous systems for real-world operational scenarios...

ZTE's intelligent systems technology automates network management decisions, reducing response times from hours to seconds while learning from continuous traffic patterns.

Automated mechanical systems handle the physical realities of warehouse scale that humans simply cannot match.