Here’s an interesting comment from MIT’s Alfonso Parra Rubio, “Treating soft versus hard robotics is a false dichotomy.” For, I suppose, obvious reasons, thinking around technology tends to be a ...

Northwestern University engineers have developed the first modular robots with athletic intelligence. They can be combined ...

Each unit has multiple points to which another unit can attach itself: 18 of them, to be precise, which means that just two ...

Schools of fish, colonies of bees, and murmurations of starlings exhibit swarming behavior in nature, flowing like a liquid in synchronized, shape-shifting coordination. Through the lens of fluid ...

Bioinspired underwater robots that swim by undulating their bodies may be more energy-efficient than their rigid counterparts, but they're also quite difficult to build. That could soon change however ...

As cities continue to expand and infrastructure projects grow more ambitious, the construction sector is facing a crippling problem: There aren’t enough workers. The U.S. alone will need to attract ...

If a soft-bodied robot uses rigid actuators to move its body, then it isn't really soft now, is it? An experimental new caterpillar-inspired bot gets around that conundrum by using soft, collapsible ...

Multifunctional fluidic units generate coordinated motion and sensing in soft robots by combining actuation, switching, and oscillation in one module, reducing reliance on electronic control.

What if industrial waste could move on its own? This 4D printing method turns sulfur into soft robots that respond to heat, ...

The modular Aerones robotic system for wind blade maintenance and repair. Photo Credit, all images: Aerones Aerones (Riga, Latvia) has unveiled and demonstrated a robot that offers full-service ...