Leah Burrows

Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
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The Hidden Costs of Standing Still
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Why delaying ERP modernization is riskier than you think.
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Researchers from the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) have developed a new approach in which robotic exosuit assistance can be calibrated to an individual and adapt to a variety of real-world walking tasks.
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Personalized Exosuit Adapts to Real-World Walking
It addresses a major challenge in designing wearable robotics.
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These fish-inspired robots can synchronize their movements without any outside control. Based on the simple production and detection of LED light, the robotic collective exhibits complex self-organized behaviors, including aggregation, dispersion and circle formation.
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Robotic Swarm Swims Like a School of Fish
They synchronize their movements like a real school of fish, without any external control.
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The Next Generation of Tools Will Be Soft
Researchers fInd way to make complex soft devices.
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This soft muscle can move with low amounts of electricity. This type of actuator could be used in everything from wearable devices to soft grippers, laparoscopic surgical tools, entirely soft robots or artificial muscles in more complex robotics.
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'Holy Grail' for Soft Robotics
Artificial muscles built from a sandwich of soft, stretchable elastomers and carbon nanotubes electrodes.
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New Battery Inspired by Vitamins
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