For workers whose jobs involve hours of lifting and repetitive motion, even small innovations can make a big difference in ...

Their distinctive shape, which resembles a rod studded with branching outgrowths at regular intervals, enables them to ...

Harvard University labs, working in collaboration with Trinity College Dublin, are offering a comprehensive online toolkit to help in the design, creation, and control of soft robots made from ...

UC San Diego engineers create a soft vine robot that twists through arteries and jet engines with liquid crystal skin.

Finding the right talent is half the battle amid the high demand for software engineers and the 34% voluntary turnover rate across tech companies. Only after identifying skilled tech experts, ...

When we picture robots, “soft” is not typically the word that comes to mind; the industrial world is littered with rigid, metallic machines. Biology, however, typically utilizes soft structures. Our ...

What influence can marine life have on robotics? This is what a recent study published in Science Advances hopes to address as a team of researchers from the University of Virginia and North Carolina ...

An international study points the way toward wider, more effective use of biocompatible materials in repairing human tissues. Focusing on the difficult case of restoring cartilage, which requires both ...

Current robotic materials and prosthetic limbs, while quickly gaining precision and application, are typically made of rigid materials and aren’t the most graceful machines – think C-3PO from "Star ...

It’s great in the lab, but will it actually work? That’s the million-dollar question perpetually leveled at engineering researchers. For a family of layered nanomaterials, developed and studied in the ...

Soft electronics, designed to function under mechanical deformation such as bending, stretching, and folding, have become essential in various applications like wearable electronics, artificial skin, ...

An interdisciplinary team of researchers at the University of Alabama at Birmingham has developed a new method of surface engineering polymer soft-materials that has potential to accelerate ...