Global electronic waste reached approximately 62 million metric tons in 2022, with soft robots—widely ...

The rapid proliferation of robots and electronic devices is placing the world under a new and growing environmental burden.

If someone asked you to move like a robot and you responded with the fluid art of ballet, your audience would be baffled, yet ...

Soft robotics has quickly moved from a niche research topic to a practical technology with real-world applications—from gentle grippers in ...

What if industrial waste could move on its own? This 4D printing method turns sulfur into soft robots that respond to heat, ...

Snakes are best known for slithering, but some species can also lift large portions of their bodies off the ground—rising ...

The study of natural and artificial intelligence in physical agents has a great interest both from a scientific and technological point of view. On the one ...

Researchers at Tohoku University, working with international collaborators in France, have developed an ultrafine “soft yarn” actuator fibre capable of bending, contracting and producing complex three ...

A joint research team has developed the first 4D printing technology built from industrial ...

Researchers developed hair-thin polymer fibers that bend and contract with electricity, enabling soft robotic actuators that can be woven into textiles.