Poke a hole in a human and something remarkable happens. First of all, you go to jail. But meanwhile, the wound heals itself, filling in the missing tissue and protecting itself from infection. Poke a ...

Robotic teams around the world are working on soft robots, because some situations call for a touch gentler than what a rigid machine can give. They can squish into tight locations for ...

Roboticists have designed soft robots that can heal themselves. Cutting your hand or tearing a muscle are both injuries that heal over time for living organisms. But what if robots could heal too? New ...

Researchers from Cornell University in Ithaca, New York created a soft robot that has a self-healing ability to operate longer. Once the robot detects an injury, it can self-heal from cuts without ...

We often think of robots as superior to ourselves, but when it comes to the abilities afforded us by our muscles, robots have a hard time keeping up. Researchers at the University of Colorado Boulder ...

(Nanowerk News) Scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems (MPI-IS) in Germany and at Pennsylvania State University (PSU) in the USA have developed a soft synthetic material that ...

A new class of soft, electrically activated devices is capable of mimicking the expansion and contraction of natural muscles. These devices, which can be constructed from a wide range of low-cost ...

Repeated activity wears on soft robotic actuators, but these machine's moving parts need to be reliable and easily fixed. Now a team of researchers has a biosynthetic polymer, patterned after squid ...

Self-healing circuit continues to carry current even when twisted. (Photo by Alex Parrish for Virginia Tech) A new type of self-healing liquid metal composite could be used to make soft, recyclable, ...