Despite their remarkable flexibility, today’s soft artificial muscles struggle to deliver meaningful force. This ...

Researchers in China have unveiled a soft humanoid robot that can shapeshift, float, swim, ...

McGill University engineers have developed ultra-thin materials that can move, fold, and reshape themselves, ...

McGill University engineers have developed new ultra-thin materials that can be programmed to move, fold and reshape ...

“Replacing traditional electric motors with soft, flexible actuators allows machines to perform tasks more safely and in ways that closely mimic the natural movement and softness of human tissue,” he ...

Zhejiang University researchers build a flexible robotic hand that literally “sees around corners,” combining deep learning ...

One day, robots might navigate through your blood vessels to break up clots, deliver targeted chemotherapy or repair ruptured blood vessels more efficiently and effectively than existing tools, ...

Engineers at MIT have devised an ingenious new way to produce artificial muscles for soft robots that can flex in more than one direction, similar to the complex muscles in the human body. The team ...

To reliably complete household chores, assemble products and tackle other manual tasks, robots should be able to adapt their ...

When disaster strikes and buildings collapse, every second counts for emergency responders searching for survivors trapped beneath rubble. Traditional tools often fall short in these dangerous, ...