Researchers at Penn Engineering have turned a common nuisance—a knotted string—into a high-performance, heat-activated ...
"Ancient Japanese Art Brings Spineless Robot To Life!" Sounds very much like a movie plot summary. In reality, it perfectly ...
How can soft robots be enhanced while reducing the need for gears and motors? This is what a recent study published in ...
A paper crane that flaps its wings without a single motor inside it sounds like a magic trick. But engineers at Princeton ...
Dynamic liquid crystal elastomer composites enable a 3D-printed soft robot that switches between three propulsion modes on ...
US engineers develop soft robots that move without motors using liquid crystal elastomers and embedded electronics.
Researchers are looking for ways to avoid rigid robot joints. One possibility is to deform material specifically through heat ...