Picture a surgical robot that can move, cut tissue, release drugs, grip and store samples, and wirelessly generate heat. You ...

Magnetically actuated mobile robots demonstrate attractive advantages in various medical applications due to their wireless and programmable executions with tiny sizes. Confronted with complex ...

(a) Structural decomposition diagrams of the soft sheet robot and magnetorheological fluids. (b) Diagram of the 3D model of the soft sheet robot. (c) Microstructure diagram of magnetorheological ...

The next generation of soft robots might be folding and sliding as effortlessly as living tissue, say a team of engineers who have created "magnetic muscles" with 3D printing. Filling elastic, ...

Soft robots are prized for their agility and gentle touch, which makes them ideal for traversing delicate or enclosed spaces to perform various tasks, from cultivating baby corals in laboratories to ...

A team of scientists has developed grain-sized soft robots that can be controlled using magnetic fields for targeted drug delivery, paving the way to possible improved therapies in future. A team of ...

Scientists have developed a single-cell green microalgae coated with magnetic material. This miniature robot was put to the test: would the microalgae with its magnetic coating be able to swim through ...

(Nanowerk News) Researchers at the Technical University of Darmstadt and the Helmholtz Centre Dresden-Rossendorf have developed a revolutionary technology: flexible robot wings that are moved by ...

Forward-looking: Engineers at the University of California, Berkeley, have unveiled a flying robot that mimics the agility and precision of a bumblebee. Weighing just 21 milligrams and measuring less ...