Biological systems have inspired the development of next-generation soft robotic systems with diverse motions and functions.

Some of today's most exciting robots don't resemble the hard, metallic machines that science fiction promised us. Welcome to the rapidly evolving world of soft robots. Here's how they are helping ...

This research explores how bio-inspired soft robots can achieve higher levels of autonomy by mimicking natural systems. By examining interactions between robots and their environment, the study ...

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill scientists have created innovative soft robots equipped with electronic skins and artificial muscles, allowing them to sense their surroundings and ...

Soft robots hold a “cooperative function”—a soft touch. Most recently, researchers worked on advancing soft robots by utilizing soft replacements instead of hard parts needed to build a robot and ...

Scientists have built a soft robot with pneumatic memory that can play the piano without relying on conventional chips.

In a nutshell, if the robot’s engines overheat, it will not be able to function. This becomes more of an issue for soft robots, since they are composed of synthetic materials.

Soft robots are nice and cuddly, but that also makes them weak. Until, that is, researchers gave them skeletons.

Some soft robots are even compliant and safe enough to be wearable, giving humans the ability to do things they never could before, or perhaps restoring functions that have been lost to the ...

The octobot is powered by a chemical reaction and controlled with a soft logic board. A reaction inside the bot transforms a small amount of liquid fuel (hydrogen peroxide) into a large amount of ...