Although nature does not necessarily provide the optimal form, it still outperforms many artificial systems and offers ...

A research team in South Korea has developed a soft robot named Octoid that can mimic the movement and behavior of an octopus ...

Soft robots that power themselves from their surroundings are moving from lab curiosity to strategic technology, promising ...

Underwater octopuses change their body color and texture in the blink of an eye to blend perfectly into their surroundings ...

A research team at The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) has engineered soft materials with highly ...

What if the same forces that move a soft robot could also power it? A research shows magnetic fields can make robots smart, ...

A warm hand is enough to drive motion in tiny Salmonella-inspired robots that harness molecular-level dynamic bonding.

For the first time, engineers have digitally recreated the complex muscular architecture of the octopus arm and its unique movements, which opens the door to developing soft robotics with ...

Engineers at MIT have devised an ingenious new way to produce artificial muscles for soft robots that can flex in more than one direction, similar to the complex muscles in the human body. The team ...

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 ...

When disaster strikes and buildings collapse, every second counts for emergency responders searching for survivors trapped beneath rubble. Traditional tools often fall short in these dangerous, ...

The research team led by Dr. Dae-Yoon Kim at the Functional Composite Materials Research Center of the Korea Institute of ...