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The Somatic toilet cleaning robot can, as the name suggests, autonomously clean toilets, mop, disinfect and vacuum dry most areas throughout a public restroom.

The Gecko Adhesion Based Sea Star (GASS) Crawler robot reportedly features adhesive material comprised of diffraction grating films on its feet that enable it to both swim and climb.

The portable system has been demonstrated to degrade 99% of 1,4-dioxane, a pervasive synthetic industrial chemical that is completely miscible in contaminated groundwater.

Metal cutting coupled with high-speed photography and new data analysis techniques offers an accessible method to explore metal behavior under extreme conditions.

Results are returned in about five minutes from a device that can also monitor for flu and other respiratory viruses.

The system takes renewable solar and wind energy from the grid and stores 100 kWh as heat for up to 23 days.

The EPFL team claims that their four-armed robotic surgical system, which is designed to perform laparoscopic surgeries — surgeries that are performed in the abdomen or pelvis using small incisions with the aid of a camera — is the first of its kind.

The soft robot moves via an inchworm-like mechanism that is achieved via magnetized rubber polymer spirals.