Researchers have achieved a tremendous breakthrough in the field of soft robotics, creating a bot using water-based hydrogen material, so as to allow it to be patterned, folded, and manipulated to ...

Embodying intelligence into materials requires engineering systems that can autonomously sense, adapt, and respond to environmental stimuli, similar to the dynamic behaviours of living organisms.

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 ...

Engineers at MIT and their collaborators have created a new type of soft gel that can dramatically change how well it ...

After vocal cord surgery, many patients develop stiff vocal folds that impact their ability to speak. Hydrogels can help prevent this by promoting healing, but delivering hydrogels to the vocal cords ...

Researchers at the University of Manchester have secured nearly 1 million pounds to develop soft robots modeled on snail ...

Researchers have developed a miniature soft lithium-ion battery that could be used as a defibrillator to control heart rhythm during surgery. The flexible lithium-ion battery is constructed by ...

Inspired by the hardness-changing behavior of sea cucumbers, a 3D-printed hard/soft switchable hydrogel was successfully developed by infusing a phase transition hydrated salt solution into the ...

A soft robot shaped like a Möbius strip can move when activated by light, and could be used to transport medicine and collect samples inside the body. Zi Liang Wu at Zhejiang University in China and ...