A team led by Northwestern University’s Sam Kriegman built an AI system that designed a walking robot from scratch in seconds ...

If someone asked you to move like a robot and you responded with the fluid art of ballet, your audience would be baffled, yet ...

Engineers at Oxford University have developed a rapid, ultra-low-cost method for manufacturing soft robots using common lab ...

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

Engineers have developed a new soft, flexible device that makes robots move by expanding and contracting -- just like a human muscle. To demonstrate their new device, called an actuator, the ...

The rapid proliferation of robots and electronic devices is placing the world under a new and growing environmental burden.

Global electronic waste reached approximately 62 million metric tons in 2022, with soft robots—widely ...

While reconfigurable soft robots are still in their infancy, such a technique could someday enable general-purpose robots that can adapt their shapes to accomplish diverse tasks. "When people think ...

For International Women's Day, Dr. Maja Matarić and Dr. Tania Morimoto discussed their current robotics research and student development.

Roboticists have been motivated by a long-standing goal to make robots safer. The new actuator could be used to develop inexpensive, soft, flexible robots which are safer and more practical for ...