A research team in South Korea has developed a soft robot named Octoid that can mimic the movement and behavior of an octopus ...

Underwater octopuses change their body color and texture in the blink of an eye to blend perfectly into their surroundings ...

A research team at The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) has engineered soft materials with highly ...

In the ever-evolving landscape of technology, the race towards creating human-friendly robots is led by pioneering institutions such as MIT’s ...

The robot’s fins flap in response to external magnetic fields, enabling it to swim, make sharp 90-degree turns, and navigate ...

Inspired by invertebrate organisms like jellyfish and earthworm, the research of soft robotics as alternatives to traditional rigid robots has made tremendous progress in recent years. Scientists are ...

Close your eyes, and picture a robot. It's probably hard and angular, with jerky movements that have inspired dancers for decades. But robots can also be flexible, squishy, and graceful. Researchers ...

As is the case with any other electrical device, the less energy that a robot uses to perform its assigned duties, the better. A new soft robotic gripper was created with this fact in mind, as it ...

Soft-bodied robots have numerous desirable qualities, such as the ability to squeeze through gaps, or survive being stepped on. And so far, they've typically been manually assembled on a one-off basis ...

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 ...