For all their technological brilliance, from navigating distant planets to performing complex surgery, robots still struggle with a few basic human tasks. One of the most significant challenges is ...

Most robots rely on rigid, bulky parts that limit their adaptability, strength, and safety in real-world environments. Researchers developed soft, battery-powered artificial muscles inspired by human ...

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 ...

Robots are all around us, from drones filming videos in the sky to serving food in restaurants and diffusing bombs in emergencies. Slowly but surely, robots are improving the quality of human life by ...

If a soft-bodied robot uses rigid actuators to move its body, then it isn't really soft now, is it? An experimental new caterpillar-inspired bot gets around that conundrum by using soft, collapsible ...

This summary provides an integrated perspective on the principles and methodologies underpinning rigid body dynamics and motion analysis. The field examines solid bodies whose internal configurations ...

Meet ALLEX, a Korean-built humanoid robot designed to tackle one of robotics’ toughest challenges: ...

Bioinspired underwater robots that swim by undulating their bodies may be more energy-efficient than their rigid counterparts, but they're also quite difficult to build. That could soon change however ...

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

Fluid robot motion is the result of design choices among five options including pneumatics and strain wave gears.