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 ...
MIT's new modular system allows single objects to snap into dozens of stable configurations without losing power or signal.
A soft jumping robot that twists itself tight under an infrared lamp, snaps its tail on the ground, and resets in mid-air to ...
Engineers have developed a new soft magnetic hydrogel that can be 3D-printed into microscopic structures. Compared with previous magnetic materials that move as a single unit, this new gel allows ...
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MIT developed a tiny origami robot that folds itself and it could one day work inside the human body
Imagine placing a flat piece of plastic on a warm surface and watching it fold itself into a fully functional robot without human hands, motors or complex assembly. It may sound like science fiction, ...
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Video: New soft robot uses infrared light to power continuous, self-resetting jumps
Researchers at North Carolina State University have developed soft robots that can repeatedly jump ...
CAMBRIDGE, Mass.—Everyone is obsessed with humanoid robots right now, but the director of MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory thinks tomorrow’s intelligent physical machines ...
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