A paper crane that flaps its wings without a single motor inside it sounds like a magic trick. But engineers at Princeton University have built exactly that: a soft robot, constructed entirely through ...

With their ability to shapeshift and manipulate delicate objects, soft robots could work as medical implants, deliver drugs ...

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 ...

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

How can soft robots enhance cancer drug delivery? This is what upcoming research hopes to address as a team of researchers ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Biologically inspired soft robots make a lot of sense in a lot of different scenarios, but as with any class of technology, they ...

Researchers at Cornell University have been working on batteries that can 'flow' through the internal structures of robots, kind of like how blood in humans' veins powers our bodies. The team has been ...