This credit card-sized soft pumps could power wearable artificial muscles
Robotic clothing that is entirely soft and could help people to move more easily is a step closer to reality thanks to the development...
This soft robot doesn’t need any electronics
Engineers at the University of California San Diego have created a four-legged soft robot that doesn't need any electronics to work.
The robot only needs...
Scientists find new way to make soft robots to sense human touch better
Soft robots may not be in touch with human feelings, but they are getting better at feeling human touch.
Cornell University researchers have created a...
This four-legged robot could crawl, crouch, clean and fight COVID
There are so many things robots can do on wheels, but in narrower, shallower spaces—like between desks in a classroom or on a stairwell—wheels...
This lovely robot could help catch good portrait photo
Good portrait photography is as much art as it is science.
There are technical details like composition and lighting, but there’s also a matter of...
Scientists create advanced soft robots with liquid crystal elastomers
The pink strip lies flat on a black-and-white checkerboard surface.
It's rubbery—gummy, almost—and just thicker than an unrolled fruit leather snack. At a glance, the...
Squid-inspired robot swims with nature’s most efficient marine animals
Scientists at the University of Southampton and University of Edinburgh have developed a flexible underwater robot that can propel itself through water in the...
This laser-steering microrobot could refine minimally invasive surgeries
Robotic engineers from Harvard’s Wyss Institute and John A. Paulson School for Engineering and Applied Science (SEAS) have developed a laser-steering microrobot that can...
Fish-inspired robots could move freely without any outside control
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...
Spontaneous robot dances reveal a new kind of order in active matter
Researchers have proposed a new principle by which active matter systems can spontaneously order, without need for higher level instructions.
Predicting when and how collections...