Soft Robotics News
Latest Soft Robotics news and analysis — 8 articles tagged Soft Robotics on The Robotics Media.
- Bristol And NC State Charge Up Liquid-Metal Droplets To Boost Soft Robot Muscles — — University of Bristol and North Carolina State University engineers have shown that a small electrical charge applied to a liquid-metal droplet can dr...
- Morph Exits Stealth With Octopus-Inspired Soft Robotics Platform — — London-based Morph emerged from stealth with the worlds first shapeshifting soft robotics cells platform, backed by 8VC, Pharrell Williams and Harvey...
- DARPA Wants Robots That Think Through Their Materials, Not Their Chips — — DARPA opened an RFI for Materials for Physical Compute in Untethered Robotics, asking how sensing and computation could be embedded directly into a ro...
- KAIST's Smart Shape-Memory Actuator Switches In Under A Second — A Boon For Soft Robotics — — Researchers at Korea's KAIST have developed a hybrid shape-memory actuator that delivers fast, reversible motion without motors — 8.6 times wider defo...
- MIT's 40-Year-Old Y-Zipper Design Enables 3D Printed Soft Robots — — MIT researchers finally manufactured a 40-year-old three-sided zipper design using 3D printing to create flexible, snake-like robots.
- MIT Neural Blueprint Enables Human-Like Intelligence in Soft Robots — — MIT researchers develop neural architecture that gives soft robots human-like cognitive abilities for medical training applications.
- MIT SMART and NUS Create Neural Blueprint for Human-Like Soft Robots — — MIT SMART and NUS researchers develop neural control system enabling soft robots to mimic human-like intelligence and adaptability.
- 3D Printed Pneumatic Robot Demonstrates Advanced Soft Robotics Locomotion — — New pneumatic-actuated soft robot combines 3D printed flexible materials with bio-inspired design for adaptive movement applications.