Researchers at Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia obtained the first artificial plant tendrils: it is a soft robot able to curl and climb, using the same physical principles of water transport... Read more
Sleeve attaches directly around the heart Harvard University and Boston Children’s Hospital researchers have developed a customizable soft robot that fits around a heart and helps it beat, p... Read more
Most robots achieve grasping and tactile sensing through motorized means, which can be excessively bulky and rigid. A Cornell University group has devised a way for a soft robot to feel its... Read more
Powered by a chemical reaction controlled by microfluidics, 3D-printed ‘octobot’ has no electronics A team of Harvard University researchers with expertise in 3D printing, mechanical enginee... Read more
Researchers at the Faculty of Physics at the University of Warsaw, using the liquid crystal elastomer technology, originally developed in the LENS Institute in Florence, demonstrated a bioin... Read more
Transparent and viscous, a new synthetic hydrogel from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) engineers is taking cues from nature. The new hydrogel’s toughness is comparable to the bon... Read more
Pitt engineers design synthetic gel that changes shape and moves via its own internal energy For decades, robots have advanced the efficiency of human activity. Typically, however, robots ar... Read more