Media Coverage

NanoWerk
Experts gather this week to discuss the efficient creation and delivery of nanoscale particles of drugs. From targeted cancer chemotherapy to the guarantee of successful organ transplants, the 21st century may prove to be the age of big ideas in medicine. The drugs themselves, though, will be miniscule. Experts in chemistry, applied physics, materials science, and pharmaceutical science are gathering this week for the BASF Advanced Research Initiative at Harvard University's symposium on pharmaceutical nanoformulations...

Red Orbit
A team of Harvard University scientists have developed a new flexible robot that can crawl, adjust its gait, squeeze under obstacles, and slide its way through tight spaces. According to BBC News Science Editor Paul Rincon, the “soft” robot was inspired by creatures such as the squid and the starfish, and has “several” advantages over more rigid, traditional style machines that have wheels or treads, including a greater array of movement types and less difficulty traversing challenging types of terrain...

BBC
Built by a team at Harvard University, this robot has several advantages over those with treads, wheels and rigid parts - which have a limited repertoire of movements and may have trouble navigating difficult terrain. The sea creature-inspired creation was manufactured with soft materials and its motion is driven by compressed air...

Scientific Computing
Computer scientists and engineers at Harvard University have developed and licensed technology that will make it easy to test collective algorithms on hundreds, or even thousands, of tiny robots...

Robotics Trends
The Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University announced today that it has signed an agreement to license its Kilobot robotic technology to K-Team Corporation, a Swiss manufacturer of high-quality mobile robots for use in advanced education and research. K-Team robotics solutions are used in more than 600 universities and industrial research centers internationally...

IdeaLab
If you’ve ever wanted to control your own swarm of tiny robots, you’re in luck: Harvard is partnering with a Swiss robotics manufacturer to bring its quarter sized, collective behavior robots, called “Kilobots,” to market...

Discovery
Picture a swarm of thousands of tiny robots deployed like insects, cleaning up a toxic waste site, burrowing through a wall to find survivors in a collapsed building or fanning out over miles to collect environmental data from a rainforest or a seascape...

Australian Broadcast Corporation
Carnivorous pitcher plants have inspired the creation of a surface more slippery than Teflon, say US scientists. Lead researcher Dr Tak Sing Wong of Harvard University says the new biomaterial can be used to repel oil and water and is self-healing and self-cleaning, making it useful for a range of biomedical, industrial and other applications...

CalTech News
A team of undergrads recently received accolades for their research at an international competition in Boston. Their studies, which earned them a gold award at the 2011 International Bio-Molecular Design Competition, started out as a summer undergrad research fellowship (SURF) project...

Vector
Countless scientific epiphanies never leave the bench – unless there’s the kind of serendipitous encounter that set Children’s Hospital Boston psychologist Gene Goldfield on a path he never expected to follow...

PhysOrg
The Kilobots are coming. Computer scientists and engineers at Harvard University have developed and licensed technology that will make it easy to test collective algorithms on hundreds, or even thousands, of tiny robots...

KCEN TV
Swarms of robots modeled on the behavior of social insects such as ants are set to invade the research and education marketplace, the university engineers who designed the technology announced Thursday. The deal between Harvard University and K-Team Corporation, a Swiss manufacturer of mobile robots, will allow educators and researchers to develop and test sophisticated algorithms that control thousands of robots in a physically-grounded setting...

MicroManufacturing
The Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University agreed to license its Kilobot robotic technology to K-Team Corporation, a Swiss manufacturer of high-quality mobile robots for use in advanced education and research. K-Team robotics solutions are used in more than 600 universities and industrial research centers internationally...

MSNBC
Swarms of robots modeled on the behavior of social insects such as ants are set to invade the research and education marketplace, the university engineers who designed the technology announced Thursday...

Harvard Gazette
Columbine flowers are recognizable by the long, trailing nectar spurs that extend from the bases of their petals, tempting the taste buds of their insect pollinators. New research at Harvard and the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB), helps to explain how columbines have achieved a rapid radiation of approximately 70 species, with flowers apparently tailored to the length of their pollinators’ tongues...

Harvard Focus
Attendees of the 2011 Warren Alpert Foundation Prize Symposium were given a taste of the future as bioengineering luminaries from Boston and beyond discussed everything from the possibility of lab-grown transplantable livers to self-folding DNA origami...

e! Science News
In demonstrating that an RNA nanostructure can be designed as both a drug carrier and as an active therapeutic agent, the Danish Nano Artists took home the grand prize at BIOMOD 2011, the inaugural international biomolecular design competition hosted by the Wyss Institute...

Harvard Gazette
In demonstrating that an RNA nanostructure can be designed as both a drug carrier and as an active therapeutic agent, the Danish Nano Artists took home the grand prize at BIOMOD 2011, the inaugural international biomolecular design competition hosted by the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University...

Dnevnik
Na Wyssovem institutu univerze Harvard so pretekli konec tedna prvic organizirali tekmovanje raziskovalnih projektov s podrocja dizajniranja novih nanostruktur na osnovi bioloskih molekul, imenovano Biomod oziroma Biomolekularni dizajn...

Smart Planet
...Really excellent work is being done now at Harvard’s Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering. I was a participant recently in their symposium on Adaptive Architecture organized by Chuck Hoberman and Joanna Aizenberg, where I was privileged to tour the facility and see the fascinating cross disciplinary work that is being done there...

Vector
How do cells figure out how to build three-dimensional organs with multiple kinds of tissues? A group of engineers, geneticists, biochemists and cell biologists at Children’s Hospital Boston and Harvard’s Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering sunk their teeth into this mystery – starting, in fact, with the tooth...