The rapid proliferation of robots and electronic devices is placing the world under a new and growing environmental burden.

What if industrial waste could move on its own? This 4D printing method turns sulfur into soft robots that respond to heat, ...

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

Soft robotics has quickly moved from a niche research topic to a practical technology with real-world applications—from gentle grippers in ...

Researchers from the Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD), the National University of Singapore (NUS) and Queensland University of Technology (QUT) have made groundbreaking ...

The study of natural and artificial intelligence in physical agents has a great interest both from a scientific and technological point of view. On the one ...

Researchers at Tohoku University, working with international collaborators in France, have developed an ultrafine “soft yarn” ...

A joint research team has developed the first 4D printing technology built from industrial ...

One day, robots might navigate through your blood vessels to break up clots, deliver targeted chemotherapy or repair ruptured blood vessels more efficiently and effectively than existing tools, ...

A flexible magnetic soft robot using magnetorheological fluids navigates the gastrointestinal tract, folds to fit narrow ...