Scientists reprogram stacked magnetic tubes in real time, enabling nesting doll-like robots with unprecedented shape-shifting ...

Soft robots, robot systems made of soft materials, open up new perspectives for medical technology and industry. Jun.-Prof.

The findings challenge long-held assumptions about motor control in octopuses and open new avenues for research in ...

Back when nanotechnology was at the "peak of inflated expectations," to borrow a stage from the Gartner hype cycle, one would come across wild speculation about where this emerging technology would ...

With AI-based language processing, robots can understand natural human instructions. So even people without technical ...

(Nanowerk News) Since the term “soft robotics” was adopted in 2008, engineers in the field have been building diverse representations of flexible machines useful in exploration, locomotion, ...

Liquid crystal elastomers (LCEs) present a versatile class of smart materials that merge the orientational order of liquid crystals with the elasticity of polymer networks. These composite materials ...

Most animals can quickly transition from walking to jumping to crawling to swimming if needed without reconfiguring or making major adjustments. Most robots cannot. But researchers have now created ...