Last year, a South Korean team, inspired by octopus adaptations, developed a metamaterial-based soft machine capable of ...

Researchers have invented a new super agile robot that can cleverly change shape thanks to amorphous characteristics akin to ...

Inspired by the human eye, our biomedical engineering lab at Georgia Tech has designed an adaptive lens made of soft, ...

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill scientists have created innovative soft robots equipped with electronic skins and artificial muscles, allowing them to sense their surroundings and adapt ...

Scientists at Linköping University have created a highly compact artificial neuron from conductive plastics that replicates ...

A talented teenager from the UK has built a four-fingered robotic hand from standard Lego parts that performs almost as well ...

Seeing robots made with soft, flexible parts in action appears to lower people's anxiety about working with them or even being replaced by them. A study found that watching videos of a soft robot ...

Magnetically actuated mobile robots demonstrate attractive advantages in various medical applications due to their wireless and programmable executions with tiny sizes. Confronted with complex ...

Soft skin coverings and touch sensors have emerged as a promising feature for robots that are both safer and more intuitive for human interaction, but they are expensive and difficult to make. A ...

The soft morphing creation – developed by the University of Bristol and Queen Mary University of London – is more adaptable than current soft robots. Shown in a study published in the journal Advanced ...