An overview paper published in the journal Science explores artificial intelligence (AI) applications in medical robots, including Professor Kaspar Althoefer's scientific research unlocking the ...

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Researchers have found an ingenious way to make soft robots and wearable technology more than three times more powerful by ...

In the public imagination, robots are often envisioned as rigid, metallic constructs—towering Transformers, Pixar’s WALL-E, ...

A team of researchers from the Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (JAIST) has developed a soft robotic ...

Scientists pushing the frontiers of soft robotics continue to find inspiration in the animal kingdom, with the latest examples that move like inchworms and earthworms deploying some novel sensor ...

The field of soft robotics has exploded in the past decade, as ever more researchers seek to make real the potential of these pliant, flexible automata in a variety of realms, including search and ...

A former surgeon's biology-inspired startup is creating soft robotic cells that could transform how intelligent machines are ...

Soft grippers, which are built from flexible materials that can bend and deform, are attracting a lot of attention from ...