McGill University engineers have developed ultra-thin materials that can move, fold, and reshape themselves, ...

McGill University engineers have developed new ultra-thin materials that can be programmed to move, fold and reshape ...

Zhejiang University researchers build a flexible robotic hand that literally “sees around corners,” combining deep learning ...

Fluid robot motion is the result of design choices among five options including pneumatics and strain wave gears.

“Replacing traditional electric motors with soft, flexible actuators allows machines to perform tasks more safely and in ways that closely mimic the natural movement and softness of human tissue,” he ...

Researchers in China have unveiled a soft humanoid robot that can shapeshift, float, swim, ...

Soft actuation remains the key bottleneck in creating soft robots with flexible deformation and agile locomotion similar to nature creatures. Despite extensive efforts, it remains performance ...

Researchers have made stretchable OLED displays real, marking a major step toward stretchable electronics, skin-mounted ...

A research team of The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU) has achieved a revolutionary breakthrough in smart materials, successfully developing soft magnetorheological textiles that can flexibly ...

The study, published January 13 in Physical Review Letters, replaces the metal or plastic cogs of conventional gears with controlled flows of liquid. In their experiments, ...

To reliably complete household chores, assemble products and tackle other manual tasks, robots should be able to adapt their ...