A new artificial intelligence control system enables soft robotic arms to learn a wide repertoire of motions and tasks once, ...

Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have developed a soft artificial muscle that mimics the structure and behavior of the human iris. Powered by light and made from real ...

Imagine having a continuum soft robotic arm bend around a bunch of grapes or broccoli, adjusting its grip in real time as it lifts the object. Unlike traditional rigid robots that generally aim to ...

MIT researchers huddled around a humanoid robot in a mock kitchen. The robot slowly scooped lemonade powder out of a bowl into a pitcher of water, mixed the liquid, and poured the lemonade into a ...

Daniela Rus has spent her career breaking barriers—scientific, social, and material—in her quest to build machines that amplify rather than replace human capability. She made robotics her life’s work, ...

Using M-blocks, MIT researchers have created a robotic technology that features cubes with no external moving parts, yet are fully capable of propelling themselves forward, jumping atop one another, ...

Harvard researchers have developed a 3D-printing method that could make it easier to build soft robots designed to bend, ...

Harvard engineers created rotational multimaterial 3D printing that embeds air channels in soft robotic parts, enabling hand-like motion without molds.

This week's report shows how robotics is evolving beyond isolated cells into integrated, intelligent manufacturing systems.

Researchers developed a soft robotic skin that enables vine robots that are just a few millimeters wide to navigate convoluted paths and fragile environments. To accomplish this, the researchers ...