With clever design and innovative engineering, scientists can make incredible things, like robotic lenses with clarity that ...

A team led by the University of Oxford has developed a new class of soft robots that operate without electronics, motors, or ...

Multifunctional fluidic units generate coordinated motion and sensing in soft robots by combining actuation, switching, and ...

Led by Dr. Lin Cao from the university’s School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, the group has developed a new way ...

Magnetic soft robots deliver and release tens of millions of probiotic bacteria with timed control, disrupt tumor spheroids ...

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 ...

Robotic dog on show at the Barbican. — © Image by Tim Sandle. Robotic dog on show at the Barbican. — © Image by Tim Sandle. Grain-sized soft robots that can be ...

Toss aside your typical idea of a robot – all metal, jerky movements and a stiff-legged walk. Scientists at Tufts University are developing soft, squishy robots that are able to squeeze into spaces a ...

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

Engineers have developed a new soft, flexible device that makes robots move by expanding and contracting -- just like a human muscle. To demonstrate their new device, called an actuator, the ...

It looks like footage taken from a deep-sea submersible. A small creature fills and deflates sacs to crawl across the ground, not a bone present in its translucent body. It’s not organic; in fact, ...