A soft robotic system uses liquid crystal elastomers to merge shape shifting, gripping, and color change, demonstrating fully ...

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Harvard Medical School researchers are designing next-gen robots that can flex, contract, and grow like human beings.

The next generation of soft robots might be folding and sliding as effortlessly as living tissue, say a team of engineers who ...

One day, robots might navigate through your blood vessels to break up clots, deliver targeted chemotherapy or repair ruptured blood vessels more efficiently and effectively than existing tools, ...

An increasing world population raises concerns over food security which, consequently, drives the opening of new avenues for ...

Wind turbines present a maintenance minefield historically navigated by in-demand experts, but robots offer efficiency and ...

Scientists unveil a flexible 2.7 mm bioprinter that lets surgeons reconstruct vocal folds and prevent scarring after throat ...

Guided by heat and pressure, a vine-like robot slips through arteries and engines, navigates where humans and tools can’t.

Learn how lessons from medical robot design can be applied to all robotics from cobots to humanoids and autonomous mobile ...