A cheetah's powerful sprint, a snake's lithe slither, or a human's deft grasp: Each is made possible by the seamless interplay between soft and rigid tissues. Muscles, tendons, ligaments, and bones ...

Researchers develop a recyclable sulfur-based polymer that enables 4D printing of soft robots with programmable shape changes ...

A new mmWave imaging system allows warehouse robots to scan and create 3D models of objects inside sealed containers, ...

The Truss Link could, in future, be used to help develop groundbreaking technologies spanning marine research to rescue ...

Today's robots are stuck—their bodies are usually closed systems that can neither grow nor self-repair, nor adapt to their ...

Creating a lifelike digital replica of a physical space no longer requires specialized equipment or labor-intensive manual mapping. A new system, DRAWER, developed by researchers at Cornell University ...

Traditional robot bodies "are still monolithic, unadaptive, and unrecyclable," said paper author and mechanical engineer Hod Lipson.

In an office at MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL), a soft robotic hand carefully curls ...

A cute robot elephant could be the future of robotics. The scaled-down jumbo has been built to demonstrate a cutting-edge ...

Researchers at Columbia University have created a process in which machines can physically grow by consuming parts from other ...

As per the study, these robots could “absorb and reuse parts,” not from a factory, but from their environment or even from other robots.