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

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

Gastrointestinal tract diseases affect millions worldwide, and traditional drug delivery methods suffer from low targeting efficiency and potential ...

Engineers at Oxford University have developed a rapid, ultra-low-cost method for manufacturing soft robots using common lab equipment. The method has been published in Advanced Science. The new ...

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

Researchers developed hair-thin polymer fibers that bend and contract with electricity, enabling soft robotic actuators that can be woven into textiles.

Researchers have developed new hair-thin actuator fiber that can pave way to build safer ...

The technique, published in Advanced Science, enables researchers to fabricate soft robotic actuators in under 10 minutes at a material cost of less than $0.10 per unit. Principal Investigator ...

Researchers at Tohoku University, working with international collaborators in France, have developed an ultrafine "soft yarn" actuator fiber capable of bending, contracting, and producing complex ...

Oxford engineers create a rapid, low-cost method to fabricate soft robotic actuators using common lab equipment.

The new capsule robots developed for medical applications can reportedly be swallowed by patients and steered using magnetic fields. The team explained that such robots could reduce the current ...