This isn't the first time scientists have looked to the mantis shrimp as an inspiration for robotics. In 2021, we reported on ...

Cornell researchers developed soft robots that use built-in batteries as both power sources and structural components, ...

Researchers at North Carolina State University have created a soft robot that moves in a ... (C) Snapshots of the crawling robot in one cycle of actuation for reverse locomotion.

Seoul National University College of Engineering announced that Professor Kyu-Jin Cho's research team from the Department of ...

In the same way that terrestrial life evolved from ocean swimmers to land walkers, soft robots are progressing, too, thanks ...

In the same way that terrestrial life evolved from ocean swimmers to land walkers, soft robots are progressing, too, thanks to recent research in battery development and design.

The researchers are testing millimetre-scale electrostatic actuators, inspired by the spatial arrangement of insect muscles, to stand in for conventional electromagnetic actuators in soft robots.

Soft robots made of hydrogel are made to crawl with temperature change. Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not responsible for the accuracy of news releases posted to EurekAlert! by contributing ...

An “octobot” less than three inches wide is changing the robotics landscape. The octobot is the world’s first completely soft, autonomous, and untethered robot. It is free of wires ...

In the same way that terrestrial life evolved from ocean swimmers to land walkers, soft robots are progressing, too, thanks to recent ...

The goal is to put the nitrate sensor, along with a camera and a waterflow sensor, onto a robot that can crawl through an entire tile drainage system and collect the information for farmers. The robot ...