Although soft robotics — unlike traditional rigid robots — are composed of flexible materials that mimic the movement of ...

Tazer] built a small desktop-sized robotic arm, and it was more or less functional. However, he wanted to improve its ability to pick things up, and attaching a pneumatic gripper seemed like the ...

Haptic gloves and teleoperation systems: Surgeons can now wear haptic gloves that simulate the feel of real tissue during ...

Claire chatted to Miranda Lowther from the University of Bristol about soft, sensitive electronic skin for prosthetic limbs.

Breakthroughs in AI are transforming robotic abilities, but the development of robot bodies has not kept pace with advances ...

Inspired by the human sense of touch, Youcan Yan, a CNRS postdoctoral researcher at the Laboratory of Computer Science, ...

Inspired by the movements of a tiny parasitic worm, engineers have created a 5-inch soft robot that can jump as high as a basketball hoop. Their device, a silicone rod with a carbon-fiber spine, can ...

Tech expert Kurt “CyberGuy" Knutsson says robots and drones are revolutionizing fruit farming with faster picking and smarter ...

The proposed robot, dubbed GRIP-tape, which stands, in part, for grasping and rolling in-plane, reportedly solves a problem ...

From soft actuators that mimic real muscle to DNA drives that can store petabytes in a sugar cube, humanity is engineering ...

Harvard's RoboBee will one day conduct artificial pollination and survey disaster zones, but first it has to stop crash ...