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

Imagine having a continuum soft robotic arm bend around a bunch of grapes or broccoli, adjusting its grip in real time as it lifts the object. Unlike traditional rigid robots that generally aim to ...

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

Robots now see the world with an ease that once belonged only to science fiction. They can recognise objects, navigate ...

One approach my group is exploring is giving robots a degree of “local intelligence” in their sensorised bodies. Humans ...

A 301 mg soft robot jumps continuously under constant light without batteries or electronics, using snap-through buckling and self-shadowing to create an autonomous feedback loop.

Assoc. Prof. Do Thanh Nho believes we can use soft robotic hearts that mimic the movements of a natural heart to assist ...

Daniela Rus has spent her career breaking barriers—scientific, social, and material—in her quest to build machines that ...

Festo says its new HPSX soft gripper is designed to solve long-standing challenges in food, pharmaceuticals, and cosmetics.

Could a robot smaller than a grain of sand really hoist a load heavier than a bowling ball? In South Korea, engineers have ...

A research team at The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) has engineered soft materials with highly tunable, asymmetric mechanical responses, an ability crucial for next-generation ...