Even soft robots made of flexible materials struggle to deform outside ... Judgment Day will remember the film’s formidable robot antagonist. Made of liquid metal, the T-1000 deforms, liquifies, and ...

A joint research team has successfully developed a next-generation soft robot based ... pass through metal bars, capture and transport foreign substances, and merge with other liquid robots.

Although soft robotics — unlike traditional rigid robots — are composed of flexible materials that mimic the movement of ...

South Korean scientists, together with international colleagues, have developed a new generation of soft robots based on ...

herky-jerky metal machines. An “octobot” less than three inches wide is changing the robotics landscape. The octobot is the world’s first completely soft, autonomous, and untethered robot.

Although they provide some versatility, liquid-based robots—such as those that use ferrofluids or liquid metal—are not appropriate ... step toward creating soft robots that closely mimic ...

Rigid, bulky batteries could one day be replaced by soft, flexible ones, a new paper argues. Scientists at a Swedish ...

The liquid-bodied robot performed exceptionally in tests on infected medical implants. Biofilm on a 3D-structured hernia mesh was reduced by 84% after treatment, while 87% of bacteria on a metal ...