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 ...

Despite their remarkable flexibility, today’s soft artificial muscles struggle to deliver meaningful force. This ...

Researchers at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln are making strides in developing a synthetic material that mimics ...

Researchers are continuing to make progress on developing a new synthetic material that behaves like biological muscle, an ...

Robots that move, sense and even coordinate with one another usually bring to mind tangled wires, circuit boards and humming motors. In a new study from the University of Oxford, all of that ...

A lightweight humanoid robot developed by researchers in China does not behave in the way most robots do. It stretches, ...

Fauna Robotics’ Sprout encourages human interactions with an expressive face and a soft foam body.

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 ...

Zhejiang University researchers build a flexible robotic hand that literally “sees around corners,” combining deep learning ...

A magnetic marker is installed with the metal clip at the suspected lesion during the endoscopic examination. Before operation, a capsule containing the soft robots with Cy5 is taken. The soft robots ...