Soft robotics has quickly moved from a niche research topic to a practical technology with real-world applications—from gentle grippers in ...

If someone asked you to move like a robot and you responded with the fluid art of ballet, your audience would be baffled, yet ...

The study of natural and artificial intelligence in physical agents has a great interest both from a scientific and technological point of view. On the one ...

Researchers from the Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD), the National University of Singapore (NUS) and Queensland University of Technology (QUT) have made groundbreaking ...

Snakes are best known for slithering, but some species can also lift large portions of their bodies off the ground—rising ...

Researchers at Tohoku University, working with international collaborators in France, have developed an ultrafine “soft yarn” actuator fibre capable of bending, contracting and producing complex three ...

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 ...

GREER, S.C. (WSPA) — BMW hosted a robotics challenge over the weekend at the Center in Greer, bringing together teachers, students and mentors to showcase impressive technology. Participants presented ...

A flexible magnetic soft robot using magnetorheological fluids navigates the gastrointestinal tract, folds to fit narrow ...