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Researchers have created a tiny, shape-shifting robot that swims, crawls, and glides freely in the deep sea. Developed by a ...

The robots walk without electronics, powered by compressed gas and 3D-printed in one piece. Designed for extreme environments ...

Separately, the researchers also developed a soft gripper, which can be attached to a rigid robot. It was tested in the South ...

This a robot can walk, without electronics, and only with the addition of a cartridge of compressed gas, right off the ...

A team of mechanical engineers at Beihang University, working with a deep-sea diving specialist from the Chinese Academy of ...

Johns Hopkins biomedical engineers created a prosthetic hand that can grip objects with near-human precision skill. Unlike traditional robotic hands, this bioinspired hand combines rigid and soft ...

a new soft prosthetic hand designed for more intuitive control. Their work, published in Science Robotics, introduces a novel control approach that combines the natural coordination patterns of ...

Most people likely think of robots as complex electronic devices, made up of many parts that have to be assembled in factories. An experimental new non-electronic bot, however, can be 3D-printed all ...

such as grippers, to the robots. Tolley's lab partnered with the BASF corporation through their California Research Alliance (CARA) to test various soft materials that could be used on standard 3D ...

Instead of using traditional hard parts like motors and wires, the entire robot is made from soft plastic material. One of ...