A team at Tsinghua University in Beijing has built a soft electronic skin for humanoid robots that converts even the lightest ...

Soft robotics—machines made of flexible, muscle-like materials—can bend and stretch in fluid ways that put the rigid robots ...

An interdisciplinary student research team at the University of Waterloo has achieved an advance in materials science with the creation of a tissue-like hydrogel for artificial muscles to make soft ...

The robotics startup Figure AI has been livestreaming humanoid robots placing thousands of packages onto a conveyor belt for ...

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 ...

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, ...

Scientists have created an active material capable of walking, crawling, and digging without a brain or programming.

Engineers have developed a new soft, flexible device that makes robots move by expanding and contracting -- just like a human muscle. To demonstrate their new device, called an actuator, the ...

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

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 ...

In a laboratory in Connecticut, a palm-sized silicone robot scrunches up its body to inch forward in a caterpillar-like motion. A brick tips over onto its leg, trapping it as it struggles to move on.