In the horticultural world, some vines are especially grabby. As they grow, the woody tendrils can wrap around obstacles with ...

MIT and Stanford built vine-like soft robots that wrap, lift, and gently carry objects — even humans — using inflatable ...

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A gentle lifting gripper that could transform healthcare, mobility assistance and even unload heavy cargo. Read on!

Engineers at MIT and Stanford University have developed a vine-like robotic gripper that wraps around objects before gently ...

Robots now see the world with an ease that once belonged only to science fiction. They can recognise objects, navigate ...

Electrically tunable ionic hydrogels use small voltages to switch friction at metal contacts between high-friction and ...

Although nature does not necessarily provide the optimal form, it still outperforms many artificial systems and offers ...

Robots now see the world with an ease that once belonged only to science fiction. They can recognise objects, navigate cluttered spaces and sort ...

Folding success is often scored using a method called Intersection over Union (IoU), which measures how fully the upper half ...

Biohybrid robots that run on real muscle are shifting from science fiction toward workable machines. In labs around the world ...