Tag: soft robotics

Engineers have built a mechatronic metamaterial whose independent vibrations coarsen into a single synchronised rhythm, forming a robotic time crystal ...

A new structured review of underwater robotics finds that soft, bio-inspired, and autonomous vehicles excel in laboratory tests but face ...

MIT engineers have built a paper-thin, two-finned robot lined with light-sensitive muscle cells that can swim and swivel through watery ...

KAIST researchers have developed an ion-based soft material inspired by the Venus flytrap that senses approaching charged objects, bends to ...

A new review argues that bio-inspired flexible pressure sensors must be judged by the structural motifs that govern their signals ...

Engineers at North Carolina State University have built a feather star-inspired soft robot that achieves full three-dimensional underwater maneuverability using ...

KAIST researchers have developed a thin-film friction modulator based on a PVC gel that delivers strong, stick-slip-free variable clutching for ...

Researchers in China have created a cellulose-based ionic soft actuator that bends 139 percent further at just 1.5 volts and ...

A new Nature Reviews Electrical Engineering review maps the interface engineering strategies that allow room-temperature liquid metals to overcome the ...

A new biodegradable shape memory polymer composite reinforced with cellulose nanocrystals and lignin nanofibers couples thermally triggered shape recovery with ...