Pop culture has often depicted robots as cold, metallic, and menacing, built for domination, not compassion. But at Georgia ...

VANCOUVER, Wash. – Seeing robots made with soft, flexible parts in action appears to lower people’s anxiety about working with them or even being replaced by them. A Washington State University study ...

Their distinctive shape, which resembles a rod studded with branching outgrowths at regular intervals, enables them to interlock when pressed together. Once the sclerites get close enough to their ...

As robotics continues to evolve at a rapid pace, the innovations of October 2025 have especially stood out for their ...

Engineers at MIT have devised an ingenious new way to produce artificial muscles for soft robots that can flex in more than one direction, similar to the complex muscles in the human body. The team ...

Most humanoid robots pick things up with their hands – but that's not how we humans do it, particularly when we're carrying something bulky. We use our chests, hips and arms as well – and that's the ...

Image courtesy by QUE.com As robotics continues to evolve at a rapid pace, the innovations of October 2025 have especially ...

In a laboratory in Connecticut, a palm-sized silicone robot scrunches up its body to inch forward in a caterpillar-like motion. A brick tips over onto its leg, trapping it as it struggles to move on.

It’s a bizarre sight: With a short burst of light, a sponge-shaped robot scoots across a tiled surface. Flipped on its back, it repeatedly twitches as if doing sit-ups. By tinkering with the light’s ...

Touch the branches of Leptogorgia chilensis, a soft coral found along the Pacific coast from California to Chile, and its flexible arms stiffen, like ...

Study investigated the structure-property relationship of the coral’s sclerite-based biological granular jamming system.