Researchers have developed a soft robotic skin that enables vine robots that are just a few millimeters wide to navigate ...

The innovation could pave the way for medical tools that move through the body’s arteries or inspection devices that crawl ...

Researchers developed a soft robotic skin that enables vine robots that are just a few millimeters wide to navigate ...

Remember those toys that sprang up into the air after you pushed them down? They're called poppers, and they've inspired an actuator that could one day allow soft-bodied robots to jump across rough ...

UC San Diego develops soft robotic skin to steer millimeter-scale vine robots through complex environments. Read more ...

Most robots use electric actuators, but this little fella packs a lot more punch. Researchers have created a new type of minuscule combustion engine that gives this tiny frog robot explosive leaping ...

With tiny spikes and elastic strength, robots can cling to difficult surfaces with minimal energy. (Erin Easterling / Purdue College of Engineering) A Venus Fly Trap is an efficient machine that waits ...

While advances in machine learning may make the robot apocalypse seem imminent, we can at least rest easy knowing that these robots are still too clunky and too slow to really chase us down. But, that ...

Inexpensive robots of all forms are on the rise. Meka uses compliant actuators called series elastic actuators (SEAs) in nearly all joints of its robotic systems. A spring between motor and load ...

Repeated activity wears on soft robotic actuators, but these machine's moving parts need to be reliable and easily fixed. Now a team of researchers has a biosynthetic polymer, patterned after squid ...

Researchers developed a soft robotic skin that enables vine robots that are just a few millimeters wide to navigate ...