Tag: soft robotics

Researchers have developed a human-scale computational model of central lymphatic pumping to guide the design and benchtop testing of an ...

A review in Discover Materials explores how machine learning accelerates the design of biodegradable materials for soft robotics by bridging ...

Engineers have developed a compliant granular jamming gripper that uses a passive Scott–Russell linkage to securely grasp diverse surgical tools ...

Distributed micro-inertial sensors and parabolic modeling enable wire-driven soft snake robots to estimate their three-dimensional shape in real time without ...

A new review in the Journal of Materials Science traces 25 years of dielectric elastomer research, from electromechanical fundamentals to ...

A one-step meniscus-guided 3D nanoprinting technique produces bioinspired AuNP–PVP microactuators that deform reversibly under humidity and can lift roughly 800 ...

A screen-printed stretchable strain sensing array showed larger resistance responses than a commercial strain gauge across tested humidity and temperature ...

A new study reports that an embedded segmented PLA hinge skeleton plus incremental PID closed-loop control raised fingertip output force ...

NIMS researchers created a porous anchor layer by simply coating and drying a solution, bonding dissimilar materials such as glass ...

Scientists have built the first fully edible tilt sensor that measures continuous tilt angles from 0 to 80 degrees using ...

Delft University of Technology researchers demonstrated a light-controlled soft actuator coated with microalgae that bends reversibly, grasps a metal ball ...

A review of 100 untethered soft-robot studies finds that habitat-specific physics constrains body design, actuation and energy delivery more strongly ...

A knifefish-inspired robot called Naiad combines an undulating ribbon fin with an actively bendable body to achieve agile turning, vertical ...

Physicists have engineered mechatronic metamaterials in which non-reciprocal wave coarsening drives spontaneous synchronization into a classical time crystal, with frictional ...

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 ...

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