The next generation of soft robots might be folding and sliding as effortlessly as living tissue, say a team of engineers who have created “magnetic muscles” with 3D printing. Filling elastic, ...

A new 3D printing technique can create paper-thin "magnetic muscles," which can be applied to origami structures to make them move. Subscribe to our newsletter for the latest sci-tech news updates. By ...

EPFL roboticists have shown that when a modular robot shares power, sensing, and communication resources among its individual ...

New modular robot design leverages shared electronics and power to maintain function even when modules fail.

A crawler robot made with the miura-ori origami pattern. The dark sections are affixed with thin "magnetic muscles" made by co-extruding rubber polymer and ferromagnetic particles, which move the ...

Chinese researchers have developed a new soft and stretchable origami-inspired brain implant. Designed to ...

Introducing: Tribot, the robotic origami that is 2cm tall, weighs just 4 grams, folds up, and is capable of crawling and jumping. Researchers at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) ...

Reconfigurable structures that can repeatedly change their ...

The combined mental prowess of Harvard University and MIT has yielded a special kind of self-assembling robot that folds up like origami and crawls away. The prototype, which is built almost entirely ...

Imagine soft robots scurrying through rubble with the agility of geckos or leaping over obstacles with the dynamism of frogs—capabilities that would prove invaluable in post-disaster rescue and ...