A team led by the University of Oxford has developed a new class of soft robots that operate without electronics, motors, or ...

Oxford researchers create soft robots that act, sense and synchronize without electronics using modular air-powered unit ...

Scientists at the University of Oxford have created a new type of soft robot that moves and reacts without using any ...

How can a horde of active robots be automatically brought to a standstill? By arresting their dynamics in a self-sustained way. This phenomenon was discovered by physicists at Heinrich Heine ...

An egg-cracking beam relies on a hyperelastic torque reversal mechanism similar to that used by mantis shrimp and jumping fleas. Credit: Seoul National University. We usually think of robots as being ...