Picture a robot controlled by micromotors so small and light that it suspends itself over water like a bug. With engineers at ...

“The biggest challenge really was to make it smart,” remarked Huanyu “Larry” Cheng, James L. Henderson, Jr. Memorial Associate Professor of Engineering Science and Mechanics at Penn State, during ...

For many people living with neurodegenerative diseases or recovering from stroke, daily routines can become exhausting ...

Researchers have created soft robots that move independently without complex electronics in a breakthrough inspired by nature’s efficiency. These robots, which are modeled after the roadside ...

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 ...

Researchers have been playing around with various oddball forms of robot locomotion; surely, we’ve seen it all, haven’t we? Not so! Lucky for us, [researchers at Stanford] are now showing us a new way ...

BEDFORD, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Soft Robotics, Inc., an innovative robotics pioneer, today announced that it has raised $23 million in an oversubscribed Series B funding round. The round is co-led by ...

Researchers have discovered a unique S-shaped escape movement in young yellow anacondas. This rapid motion helps them evade threats. The study reveals the biomechanics of this gait. It involves ...