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

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

Engineers at Oxford University have developed a rapid, ultra-low-cost method for manufacturing soft robots using common lab ...

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, ...

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

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

Snakes may be best known for slithering. But consider that these animals also perform one of the most extreme feats of posture control found in nature: They can stand nearly straight upright on a ...

Researchers have developed new hair-thin actuator fiber that can pave way to build safer ...

A research team in South Korea has developed a soft robot named Octoid that can mimic the movement and behavior of an octopus in its natural habitat. The robot's "triple-in-one" system enables it to ...

An insect-scale robot that jumps using only light has completed 188 continuous leaps without ...