Recent progress in soft materials, fabrication, and bioinspired design has significantly expanded the capabilities of soft robots in locomotion, ...

Researchers at Tampere University have recently demonstrated that light can be used to precisely reshape soft materials ...

UCLA researchers have engineered a new material that can create robots more similar to living organisms. In a study published June 17, researchers from the He Lab at UCLA developed a material that ...

Engineers have developed a new soft magnetic hydrogel that can be 3D-printed into microscopic structures.

"Ancient Japanese Art Brings Spineless Robot To Life!" Sounds very much like a movie plot summary. In reality, it perfectly ...

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, ...

Superhumans don’t exist in the real world, but someday you might see super robots. Obviously, robots can be made that are stronger, faster, and better than humans, but do you think there is a limit to ...

A new material being researched could make shape-shifting robots real, but let’s hope they aren’t as violent as the Transformers from the movies. Researchers have developed a flexible material that ...

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 ...