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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 ...

Scientists at MIT have developed a novel vision-based artificial intelligence (AI) system that can teach itself how to control virtually any robot without the use of sensors or pretraining. The system ...

Researchers at MIT’s Media Lab with Politecnico di Bari, and at Princeton University, have separately developed soft robotics systems that integrate actuation directly into compact, flexible designs.

Key to the work is a class of materials known as photo-ion generators (PIGs). These can become some 1,000 times more ...

Soft robots have a “cardiovascular” problem. While their bodies can deform and bend, their hearts, the pumps that keep them ...