With their ability to shapeshift and manipulate delicate objects, soft robots could work as medical implants, deliver drugs ...

The field of robotics has transformed drastically in this century, with a special focus on soft robotics. In this context, origami-inspired deployable structures with compact storage and efficient ...

The field of robotics has transformed drastically in this century, with a special focus on soft robotics. In this context, origami-inspired deployable structures with compact storage and efficient ...

Soft robots are only as capable as the artificial muscles that drive them, and for years those muscles have forced a trade-off between strength and flexibility. A new magnetic polymer design is ...

A novel gold-bonded, self-healing polymer can bend, flex, and repair itself without losing conductivity, providing opportunities for advanced wearable electronics and robotics in the future. Gold ...

A recent study in Nature Communications presents a new class of shape memory polymer (SMP) surfaces embedded with nanotips. These surfaces feature tunable nanoscale roughness, enabling adjustable dry ...

ORNL has pioneered molten salt research since the 1960s, when its Molten Salt Reactor Experiment showed that molten salt ...

Researchers at Georgia Tech have developed "living" polymers capable of growing, shrinking, healing, and regenerating after ...

This year, Cheolmin Park, Professor of Materials Science and Engineering at Yonsei University, was selected as the recipient ...

Florida Polytechnic University introduced the option of food deliveries carried out by autonomous robots on campus for the ...