“Every block of expanded polystyrene foam has a statue inside it and it is the task of the dual-arm hot wire-wielding robot to discover it.” — [Michelangelo], probably. But hot-wire cutters ...

The system’s sensors detect the hight at which the arm sprays the foam, gradually lifting itself higher as the walls of the structure take shape. In the demo video, the robot is shown building a ...

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Nerf blasters typically fire small foam darts or little foam balls ... like this rocket-blasting robot.

"Like practicing building prototypes," Whistler ... They placed in the regional competitions. "Our robot had to take these big orange foam rings and pick them up and shoot them into a pretty ...

Scientists from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology created the shape-shifting material from wax and foam It's hoped the material will lead to robots being able to change from a rigid to ...