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 ...

With clever design and innovative engineering, scientists can make incredible things, like robotic lenses with clarity that ...

Roboticists have been motivated by a long-standing goal to make robots safer. The new actuator could be used to develop inexpensive, soft, flexible robots which are safer and more practical for ...

The 2004 sci-fi action flick I, Robot (streaming now on Peacock) features Will Smith as Del Spooner, a Chicago detective in the year 2035. It’s a loose adaptation of Isaac Asimov’s robot stories, ...

This dual cross-linking design lets the muscle switch stiffness on demand. In lab tests, its stiffness jumps from about 213 ...

Advances in robot design, actuation, and control have benefitted from biological inspiration, which has perhaps most influenced the soft robotics community. Furthermore, many scientists interested in ...

Empa researcher Frank Clemens and his team develop soft and intelligent sensors materials based on ceramic particles. Most people think of coffee cups, bathroom tiles or flower pots when they hear the ...

Fossils of a marine animal that lived 500 million years ago, combined with computer simulations, informed the design of a new soft robot. Soft robotics is the study of creating robots from soft ...