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

UC San Diego develops soft robotic skin to steer millimeter-scale vine robots through complex environments. Read more ...

Robots that move, lift, and sense objects without electronics are now possible. They work using materials that snap and bend in predictable ways.

A team of engineers at North Carolina State University has designed a polymer “Chinese lantern” that can rapidly snap into ...

Using metamaterials, light-driven additive manufacturing, and other techniques, researchers have created innovative pressure ...

Flying manipulator robots have shown themselves to be useful in many applications, such as industrial maintenance or ...

Centimeter-scale robots have unique advances such as small size, light weight, and flexible motions, which exhibit great application potential in many ...

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ABSTRACT: Palletizing automation plays a vital role across industries, requiring the selection of suitable robotic grippers to improve product quality and cost efficiency. However, issues such as ...

Researchers at NC State develop a magnetic Chinese lantern that snaps into multiple shapes. This shape-shifting device, ...

Abstract: Manipulation with legs on multi-pedal robots is not a new concept, but it has rarely been considered on wheel-legged robots due to their mechanical structure. This paper presents a mechanism ...

Abstract: This paper presents the preliminary work on prototype design and analysis of a 3D printed three-fingered underactuated robotic gripper with a breakaway clutch mechanism. An underactuated ...