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 ...

(Nanowerk Spotlight) Soft robotics has emerged as a promising field, with the potential to revolutionize areas such as prosthetics, wearable devices, and human-machine interaction. Unlike traditional ...

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

Researchers have proposed process flow guides for 3D printing of miniature soft pneumatic actuators. Integrating the prints into a robotic system offers potential applications in jet-engine ...

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 ...

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 ...

Earthworm-inspired robot moves by doing the wave By Ben Coxworth March 01, 2023 The robot uses five peristaltic soft actuators to copy the function of an earthworm's body segments Istituto Italiano di ...

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