Several research groups across the United States and Europe have demonstrated that 3D-printed artificial muscles can ...

If someone asked you to move like a robot and you responded with the fluid art of ballet, your audience would be baffled, yet ...

If a soft-bodied robot uses rigid actuators to move its body, then it isn't really soft now, is it? An experimental new caterpillar-inspired bot gets around that conundrum by using soft, collapsible ...

Discover the groundbreaking Soft Robotic Exosuit developed by Harvard—an innovation that is changing the future of wearable ...

Remotely operated vehicles have changed how we explore and exploit the ocean. They can operate for far longer than human-occupied vehicles, go into areas where risk would dictate people avoid, and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Biologically inspired soft robots make a lot of sense in a lot of different scenarios, but as with any class of technology, they ...

A research team in South Korea has developed a soft robot named Octoid that can mimic the movement and behavior of an octopus in its natural habitat. The robot's "triple-in-one" system enables it to ...

Inspired by the biomechanics of the manta ray, researchers have developed an energy-efficient soft robot that can swim more than four times faster than previous swimming soft robots. The robots are ...

A team of engineers at the University of Maryland has built a three-fingered soft robotic hand that is sufficiently agile to be able to manipulate the buttons and directional pad on a Nintendo ...