We explore new ways for robots, vehicles, and other powered devices to achieve sophisticated autonomous behaviors, including locomotion on complex terrain, multi-fingered or nonprehensile manipulation ...

Description: Soft Robotics is an emerging field that combines the principles of robotics and materials science to create robots that are flexible, adaptable, and safe to interact with humans and the ...

An “octobot” less than three inches wide is changing the robotics landscape. The octobot is the world’s first completely soft, autonomous, and untethered robot. It is free of wires ...

Google boosts its investment in Apptronik, a leading humanoid robot company, to advance human-robot collaboration.

A soft robot design that demonstrates the desired motion of actuation in order to safely maneuver through the lung during bronchoscopy. During a bronchoscopy, a needle is passed through the airway to ...

Robots, especially those that are intended to be used in close association with humans, can often benefit from being a little more flexible. And that’s where the field of soft robotics shines.

Holy cow. We’ve seen lots of soft robotics before, but this is some really cool stuff! You see, [Mike] is actually planning on building an inexpensive prosthetic robot hand using this technology.