Insect-scale robots can squeeze into places their larger counterparts can't, like deep into a collapsed building to search for survivors after an earthquake. However, as they move through the rubble, ...

North Carolina State University engineers have unveiled a light-powered soft robot that rolls along aerial cables like a microscopic tram, lugging payloads more than a dozen times its own mass and ...

Researchers have created a light-powered soft robot that can carry loads through the air along established tracks, similar to cable cars or aerial trams. The soft robot operates autonomously, can ...