Despite their remarkable flexibility, today’s soft artificial muscles struggle to deliver meaningful force. This ...

McGill University engineers have developed ultra-thin materials that can move, fold, and reshape themselves, ...

“Replacing traditional electric motors with soft, flexible actuators allows machines to perform tasks more safely and in ways that closely mimic the natural movement and softness of human tissue,” he ...

Zhejiang University researchers build a flexible robotic hand that literally “sees around corners,” combining deep learning ...

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 ...

Engineers at MIT have devised an ingenious new way to produce artificial muscles for soft robots that can flex in more than one direction, similar to the complex muscles in the human body. The team ...

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 ...

Answering the question, "Why move two-pound burritos in two-ton cars?" a Redwood City company has built autonomous sidewalk ...