Startups from outside the UK are also contributing. Denmark’s Pliantics will create soft linear actuators, which will serve ...

Researchers have developed a soft robot capable of crawling like a worm, climbing cables, and rapidly changing shape to shift directions—all powered by a single air input. Soft robots are ...

A new type of soft robot can crawl like a worm, climb cables, and suddenly snap into a completely different shape to move in a new direction—all controlled by a single air input. This breakthrough, ...

Soft robotics, a research field wherein robots are fabricated from compliant materials ... When the DES was subjected to uniaxial strain, it exhibited a linear response and large deformation of up to ...

As robotics continues to gain traction, a subfield of robotics is also gathering the attention of researchers. As demand for robots increases in applications beyond industrial automation, the subfield ...

Abstract: Achieving accurate closed-loop position control of soft robots remains an ongoing research problem ... After presenting the general theory, a linear matrix inequalities algorithm is proposed ...

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

Baloo, a standout robot, demonstrates remarkable versatility in a BYU video, safely managing large, unwieldy items like ladders, kayaks, and boxes. “If soft robots like Baloo can be taught to do ...

Soft robots, with their unique and outstanding capabilities of environmental conformation, natural sealing against elements, as well as being insensitive to magnetic/electrical effects, are ideal ...