Soft robotics—machines made of flexible, muscle-like materials—can bend and stretch in fluid ways that put the rigid robots of old sci-fi movies to shame. But the flexibility that lets them pick ripe ...

An interdisciplinary student research team at the University of Waterloo has achieved an advance in materials science with ...

If someone asked you to move like a robot and you responded with the fluid art of ballet, your audience would be baffled, yet technically, you would be right. Robots are famous for their ...

The day is coming when you may walk past a robot and have no idea it was a robot. Over years of engineering, we've given ...

A swallowable soft robot capable of sampling stomach fluid and measuring acidity in real-time has been developed by a team of ...

The future of next-generation robots that move like living systems will be shaped by advances in molecular design ...

Researchers, materials scientists, and engineers have eight days to help shape what could become the U.S. military’s next ...

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Systematic overview of the humanoid dexterous hand with multi-degree-of-freedom posture perception. a The humanoid dexterous hand in various delicate operational scenarios. b The omnidirectional soft ...

For the millions of Americans who live with a mobility issue, making a pizza can be a lot more challenging than just choosing between pepperoni or sausage. Now Virginia Tech researchers have developed ...