New technique could slash the price of soft robots
An inflated crane. Credit: Antonio Forte/ Ashkan Rezanejad/ University of Oxford. Engineers at Oxford University have developed a rapid, ultra-low-cost method for manufacturing soft robots using common lab equipment. The new technique enables researchers to fabricate...
New record: Laser cuts bone deeper than before
Dr Ferda Canbaz in the laser laboratory at the Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Basel. Credit: University of Basel, Christian Flierl. Researchers have demonstrated a way to cut much deeper and faster with a surgical laser than with previous laser...
Bringing optical colour to ultrasound
The RUS-PAT (rotational ultrasound tomography, RUST, combined with photoacoustic tomography, PAT) technique combines the benefits of ultrasound imaging for seeing tissue structure with those of photoacoustic tomography for revealing function of the vasculature Credit:...