Fauna Robotics’ Sprout encourages human interactions with an expressive face and a soft foam body.

Humanoid robots look impressive and have enormous potential to change our daily lives, but they still have a reputation for ...

Soft robots are only as capable as the artificial muscles that drive them, and for years those muscles have forced a trade-off between strength and flexibility. A new magnetic polymer design is ...

A lightweight humanoid robot developed by researchers in China does not behave in the way most robots do. It stretches, ...

Researchers are continuing to make progress on developing a new synthetic material that behaves like biological muscle, an ...

The humanoid robot GrowHR can change its size via air-filled legs. Due to the air chambers, it can also walk on water.

Despite their remarkable flexibility, today’s soft artificial muscles struggle to deliver meaningful force. This ...

Researchers in China have unveiled a soft humanoid robot that can shapeshift, float, swim, ...

One day, robots might navigate through your blood vessels to break up clots, deliver targeted chemotherapy or repair ruptured blood vessels more efficiently and effectively than existing tools, ...

“Replacing traditional electric motors with soft, flexible actuators allows machines to perform tasks more safely and in ways that closely mimic the natural movement and softness of human tissue,” he ...

McGill University engineers have developed ultra-thin materials that can move, fold, and reshape themselves, ...

Zhejiang University researchers build a flexible robotic hand that literally “sees around corners,” combining deep learning ...