Researchers have created a robot with a 3D printed body that transitions from a rigid core to a soft exterior and is capable of more than 30 untethered jumps, powered by a mix of butane and oxygen ...

Scientists at the Bioinspired Robotics Laboratory at the University of California San Diego (UC San Diego) have developed a robot that can be printed directly in one go using a 3D printer and can run ...

Researchers 3D-printed a robotic hand, a six-legged robot, a 'heart' pump, and a metamaterial cube. [Related: Watch a robot hand only use its ‘skin’ to feel and grab objects.] Traditional 3D-printers ...

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

Markus Nemitz, assistant professor at Tufts University, has a vision: he wants to use a 3D printer to print robots for their specific area of application. The robots will then perform their tasks ...

A robot has been developed that can walk without electronics, powered solely by a cartridge of compressed gas. Designed by researchers at the Bioinspired Robotics Laboratory at the University of ...

In the future, soft robots will be able to perform tasks that cannot be done by conventional robots. These soft robots could be used in terrain that is difficult to access and in environments where ...

Researchers from North Carolina State University have demonstrated miniature soft hydraulic actuators that can be used to control the deformation and motion of soft robots that are less than a ...

Soft skin coverings and touch sensors have emerged as a promising feature for robots that are both safer and more intuitive for human interaction, but they are expensive and difficult to make. A ...

The first soft robots that can walk from the machines that make them have been built using Flex Printer, a new 3D printing system developed at Edinburgh University. Soft machines are made from ...

Additive manufacturing has enabled the deposition of highly flexible, affordable materials, easily printed using low-cost fused filament fabrication. The transition from soft lithography to digital ...