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 ...

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

A team of researchers at the University of California San Diego has created a soft robotic skin that enables millimeter-wide ...

Roboticists at The Faboratory at Yale University have developed a way for soft robots to replicate some of the more unsettling things that animals and insects can accomplish — say, a reptile ...

A team of researchers from North Carolina State University has created a new 3D-printing method that builds paper-thin ...

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

This dual cross-linking design lets the muscle switch stiffness on demand. In lab tests, its stiffness jumps from about 213 ...

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 ...

VANCOUVER, Wash. – 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 Washington State University study ...