To create a safer, more practical robot, Professor Ryan Truby and his team developed a soft, flexible actuator that enables robots to move by expanding and contracting—just like a human muscle. To ...

Professors at the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M) and the Universidad Pública de Navarra (UPNA) have developed a soft ...

Robots – that is, self-guided mechanisms interacting with or changing their environments – exist in the popular imagination ...

Researchers from ETH Zurich designed a walking robotic hand. Robotic hands usually come bolted to the wrist of a mechanical ...

Toyota wants a robot on the assembly line that is soft enough to bump into things. That's the unusual engineering goal behind ELEY, the in-house robot at the center of Toyota's latest ...

In a laboratory in Connecticut, a palm-sized silicone robot scrunches up its body to inch forward in a caterpillar-like motion. A brick tips over onto its leg, trapping it as it struggles to move on.

Researchers at Cornell University have been working on batteries that can 'flow' through the internal structures of robots, kind of like how blood in humans' veins powers our bodies. The team has been ...

Robots that can sense touch and perceive temperature differences? An unexpected material might just make this a reality. Researchers are developing soft and intelligent sensor materials based on ...

Deep-sea robotics integrates bioinspired designs and acoustic navigation, tackling engineering challenges to enhance ...

Researchers have created small, resilient, soft-jointed robots built with 3D printers. Imagine a swarm of tiny robots, each about the size of the palm of your hand, spreading out over a wildfire ...

In a leap for minimally invasive medicine, a soft robot is learning to perform delicate procedures inside a living, beating heart—something no human hand could ever achieve. For Assistant Professor ...