Do not be alarmed, but this disembodied robotic tentacle can gracefully grasp smooth objects or pass them to your puny human hand. The OctopusGripper has been created by German robotics firm Festo, ...

Artificial suckers inspired by those of an octopus could allow robots to delicately grasp objects that they are usually too clumsy to hold. The technology has been demonstrated in a wearable glove for ...

3-D printers have been around since the 1980s, but we are still far from maximizing their potential. One active area of research is 'self-actuating' objects: flat materials that transform themselves ...