The Octobot is the first entirely soft, autonomous robot demonstrated by a team of Harvard University researchers. It is made by a combination of embedded 3d printing, molding, and soft lithography.

Harvard University labs has launched a toolkit that will supply robotics enthusiasts and researchers with the tools they need to design, build and operate soft robots. Michelle Starr is CNET's science ...

Using common kitchen ingredients such as citric acid and sodium bicarbonate, scientists have created an edible pneumatic ...

Inspired by invertebrate organisms like jellyfish and earthworm, the research of soft robotics as alternatives to traditional rigid robots has made tremendous progress in recent years. Scientists are ...

While there are many potential uses for soft-bodied robots, the things are still typically only built in small experimental batches. Scottish scientists are out to change that, with a ...

Today's robots may not be the hospitable humanoids or shape-shifting Autobots of past imagination, but engineers are well on their way to producing machines that can walk, swim, crawl and climb as ...

It’s balloon art on steroids: a pneumatic, shape-changing soft robot capable of navigating its environment without requiring a tether to a stationary power source. Developed by researchers in UC Santa ...

Soft robotics is an emerging field in the robotic world with promising adaptability in navigating unstructured environments.

As is the case with any other electrical device, the less energy that a robot uses to perform its assigned duties, the better. A new soft robotic gripper was created with this fact in mind, as it ...

A robotic gripping arm that uses engineered bacteria to “taste” for a specific chemical has been developed by engineers at the University of California, Davis, and Carnegie Mellon University. The ...