Using common kitchen ingredients such as citric acid and sodium bicarbonate, scientists have created an edible pneumatic ...

Scientists have made a soft robotic lens that has no electric or rigid parts, is more powerful than the human eye, and is ...

While there are many useful questions to ask when encountering a new robot, “can I eat it” is generally not one of them. I say ‘generally,’ because edible robots are actually a thing—and not just ...

A new participant has emerged in the race to bring practical robotics into everyday life. On November 19, the Mountain ...

The idea of a human-controlled robot in your home might sound weird at first, but perhaps it's not all that different to what we're already used to.

Magnetic soft robots deliver and release tens of millions of probiotic bacteria with timed control, disrupt tumor spheroids ...

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 ...

Chinese electric vehicle manufacturer Xpeng has unveiled Iron, its second-generation humanoid robot, which the company ...

Seeing robots made with soft, flexible parts in action appears to lower people's anxiety about working with them or even being replaced by them. A study found that watching videos of a soft robot ...

Robotic dog on show at the Barbican. — © Image by Tim Sandle. Robotic dog on show at the Barbican. — © Image by Tim Sandle. Grain-sized soft robots that can be ...

Magnetically actuated mobile robots demonstrate attractive advantages in various medical applications due to their wireless and programmable executions with tiny sizes. Confronted with complex ...