Finding the right talent is half the battle amid the high demand for software engineers and the 34% voluntary turnover rate across tech companies. Only after identifying skilled tech experts, ...

UC San Diego engineers create a soft vine robot that twists through arteries and jet engines with liquid crystal skin.

Inspired by Marvel’s Venom, a new soft robot made of electro-morphing gel bends, stretches, and shapeshifts with ease.

When we picture robots, “soft” is not typically the word that comes to mind; the industrial world is littered with rigid, metallic machines. Biology, however, typically utilizes soft structures. Our ...

Harvard University labs, working in collaboration with Trinity College Dublin, are offering a comprehensive online toolkit to help in the design, creation, and control of soft robots made from ...

What influence can marine life have on robotics? This is what a recent study published in Science Advances hopes to address as a team of researchers from the University of Virginia and North Carolina ...

Current robotic materials and prosthetic limbs, while quickly gaining precision and application, are typically made of rigid materials and aren’t the most graceful machines – think C-3PO from "Star ...

An international study points the way toward wider, more effective use of biocompatible materials in repairing human tissues. Focusing on the difficult case of restoring cartilage, which requires both ...

It’s great in the lab, but will it actually work? That’s the million-dollar question perpetually leveled at engineering researchers. For a family of layered nanomaterials, developed and studied in the ...

Northwestern Engineering researchers have developed a theoretical model to design soft materials that demonstrate autonomous oscillating properties that mimic biological functions. The work could ...

An interdisciplinary team of researchers at the University of Alabama at Birmingham has developed a new method of surface engineering polymer soft-materials that has potential to accelerate ...