Robots that move, sense and even coordinate with one another usually bring to mind tangled wires, circuit boards and humming ...

Physicists revealed a microscopic phenomenon that could greatly improve the performance of soft devices, such as agile flexible robots or microscopic capsules for drug delivery. In a May 15 paper ...

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 ...

Tiny flying robots have always faced a brutal trade-off between agility and battery life, burning through power just to stay ...

Robots that can think and move are no longer confined to factory floors or humanoid prototypes. Researchers have now shrunk ...

Scientists achieve major robotics milestone as robot learns 1,000 different physical tasks in single day, potentially ...

Roboticists have been motivated by a long-standing goal to make robots safer. The new actuator could be used to develop inexpensive, soft, flexible robots which are safer and more practical for ...

(Nanowerk News) In a paper released in the journal Physical Review Letters ("Diffusiophoretic Fast Swelling of Chemically Responsive Hydrogels"), Virginia Tech physicists revealed a microscopic ...

Northwestern University 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 ...