A new type of robotic hand developed at The University of Texas at Austin demonstrates such sensitive touch that it can grasp objects as fragile as a potato chip or a raspberry without crushing them.

Soft robotics has quickly moved from a niche research topic to a practical technology with real-world applications—from gentle grippers in ...

Biomaterials entwine the power of nature with human ingenuity – and they’re taking medicine by storm. Crucial to life science fields, including bioengineering and biotechnology, biomaterials can be ...

Engineers at Oxford University have developed a rapid and ultra‑low‑cost method for manufacturing soft robots using standard ...

In this article, we take a look at how the robots see the world around them, what it takes to train them for deployment, and ...

A robotic survey beneath the Mediterranean near Malta was supposed to map the seabed. Instead, its cameras captured something no one expected buried in the sand.

Abstract: This paper introduces a novel pneumatic origami module that embeds a proprioceptive closed-loop shape control through seamless sensor-hardware integration. Each module incorporates a spring ...

Go inside the factory where 32 robots make a shoe’s upper in just three minutes.

The shape of an organism is the first way we experience most species and the subject of one of the oldest pursuits in biology. However, the ...

A giant database of over 2000 ant species in 3D, generated from micro-CT scans at micrometer resolution, democratizes access to extremely detailed morphology for researchers, artists, and educators.