The convergence of soft robotics and flexible electronics could bring about advances in businesses as diverse as industrial automation and space exploration.

Asymmetric bending is a promising way to achieve rapid and efficient crawling in soft robots. In a recent innovation, ...

Seeing robots made with soft, flexible parts in action appears to lower people's anxiety about working with them or even being replaced by them. A study found that watching videos of a soft robot ...

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 ...

As reported in the journal IEEE Transactions on Robotics, the 3D-printed pads function as both soft skin for a robotic arm and pressure-based mechanical sensors.

Grain-sized soft robots that can be controlled using magnetic fields for targeted drug delivery, paving the way to possible improved therapies in future, according to a new study from Nanyang ...

Researchers created a biodegradable soft robot made of pig gelatin that can break down after it is no longer useful.

Squishy, Soft Robots Crawl Their Way to the Cutting Edge of Science 2 minute read This photo is a video of a soft robot that has crawled to a glass plate, elevated off the ground.

This process finally resulted in energy-efficient soft robots capable of directional crawling at a low actuation voltage value via paper substrate integration with LCEs in a bilayer architecture.