By using one physical principle—magnetism—to drive both movement and power, the team created a robot that is more efficient, ...

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

A research team has developed soft composite systems with highly programmable, asymmetric mechanical responses. By ...

Soft composite systems are materials that can deform and adapt to external stimuli. The HKUST team has integrated "shear-jamming transitions" into compliant polymeric solids, which allows these ...

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill scientists have created innovative soft robots equipped with electronic skins and artificial muscles, allowing them to sense their surroundings and adapt ...

Magnetically actuated mobile robots demonstrate attractive advantages in various medical applications due to their wireless and programmable executions with tiny sizes. Confronted with complex ...

This transcript was prepared by a transcription service. This version may not be in its final form and may be updated. Alex Ossola: Picture a robot. The first thing that comes to mind is probably ...

Miniaturization offers robotics designers new levels of power efficiency, nimbleness, and precision for a range of ...

Some 30,000 people in the U.S. are affected by amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), also known as Lou Gehrig’s disease, a neurodegenerative condition that damages cells in the brain and spinal cord ...

Seeing robots made with soft, flexible parts in action appears to lower people's anxiety about working with them or even being replaced by them. A study found that watching videos of a soft robot ...